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• past tense form of allocate.
• past participle of allocate.

allocated

American  

[al-uh-kay-tid] / ˈæl əˌkeɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. set apart for a particular purpose or recipient; assigned or allotted.

   No committee participating in this event shall receive more than its allocated share of the funds raised.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of allocate.

Other Word Forms

• unallocated
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of allocated

allocate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

allocated

Lario also flagged the impact of climate change on small-scale farmers, who received less than one percent of allocated global climate finance.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

“There are budgets that have been laid out, but no resources that have been allocated to it yet,” Herrera said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Less than two years later, he sent a note to one of his teams saying that Google had cut what was allocated to them in favor of another project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The 23 elephants were allocated in eight districts across the country.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

He began lobbying officials there to include the various second-line antibiotics on their list of “essential drugs”—a list that the ministries followed and allocated money for in their budgets.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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