allocate
- to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- to fix the place of; locate.
Origin of allocate
Synonym study
Related Words for allocated
earmark, apportion, give, appropriate, allot, designate, admeasure, cut, share, slice, budget, mete, divvyExamples from the Web for allocated
Contemporary Examples of allocated
All the slots for arrivals and departures are allocated months in advance.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501Clive Irving
January 6, 2015
More than 40,000 regular police from a force already stretched by the protests have been allocated to mind the event.
Yet resources will also be allocated to some new writers and even some smaller books—because they have to be.
The CBO predicted that about 400,000 people would enroll, rapidly depleting the $5 billion that had been allocated.
The U.S. military had not established any prisoner of war protocols or allocated resources to handle the captured enemy.
The First American: Excerpt from Henry Crumpton’s ‘The Art of Intelligence’Henry A. Crumpton
May 14, 2012
Historical Examples of allocated
So you put Arthur into the living, and you allocated the income to me.
The BertramsAnthony Trollope
Pete allocated Aunt Caroline according to his idea of where she would do the most good.
Good ReferencesE. J. Rath
Nor can these new expenses be allocated to the new business alone.
Railroads: Rates and RegulationsWilliam Z. Ripley
Resources were allocated within it with reasonable efficiency.
After the RainSam Vaknin
Developing countries were allocated the role of extending their growth.
After the RainSam Vaknin
allocate
- to assign or allot for a particular purpose
- a less common word for locate (def. 2)
Word Origin for allocate
Word Origin and History for allocated
allocate
1630s, from verbal used of adjective allocate (mid-15c. in legal use), from Medieval Latin allocate (the common first word of writs authorizing payment), imperative plural of allocare "allocate," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + locare "to place" (see locate). Related: Allocated; allocating.