allocate

[al-uh-keyt]

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verb (used with object), al·lo·cat·ed, al·lo·cat·ing.

to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.

to fix the place of; locate.

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Origin of allocate

1630–40; < Medieval Latin allocātus (past participle of allocāre), equivalent to al- al- + loc(us) place + -ātus -ate¹

Related formsal·lo·ca·tor, nounde·al·lo·cate, verb (used with object), de·al·lo·cat·ed, de·al·lo·cat·ing.re·al·lo·cate, verb (used with object), re·al·lo·cat·ed, re·al·lo·cat·ing.un·al·lo·cat·ed, adjective

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1. See assign.

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Examples from the Web for allocated

All the slots for arrivals and departures are allocated months in advance.
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More than 40,000 regular police from a force already stretched by the protests have been allocated to mind the event.
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Yet resources will also be allocated to some new writers and even some smaller books—because they have to be.
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The CBO predicted that about 400,000 people would enroll, rapidly depleting the $5 billion that had been allocated.
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The U.S. military had not established any prisoner of war protocols or allocated resources to handle the captured enemy.
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Hence the loans were allocated for the purchase of material in this country and substantially aided American industries.
The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII)|Various
Pete allocated Aunt Caroline according to his idea of where she would do the most good.
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Bulgaria allocated only 0.5 percent of its total GNP to the field of education.
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Those from "del Norte" are considered Huchiun and those "del Este" are allocated to area 5.
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Could not artists be allocated at birth in a system of unchangeable groups?
The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920|Various

British Dictionary definitions for allocated

allocate

verb (tr)

to assign or allot for a particular purpose

a less common word for locate (def. 2)

Derived Formsallocatable, adjective

Word Origin for allocate

C17: from Medieval Latin allocāre, from Latin locāre to place, from locus a place

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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.

allocate

verb (used with object), al·lo·cat·ed, al·lo·cat·ing.

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