allocate

Verb

Meaning

To distribute or assign; to allot.

To localize.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

apportion provide budget commit distribute assign designate set aside dedicate dispense earmark allot hand out parcel out dole out
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Antonyms

center aline centre mill garner group
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Hypernyms

portion assign allot

Hyponyms

award present ration reapportion reallocate ration out

Phrases with the word

not allocate time allocate to

Examples

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families. Kim Campbell

It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years. Tim Berners-Lee

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Herbert Simon

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security. Herman Kahn

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory. John McAfee

I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act. Yitzchak Gruenbaum

Close letter words and terms

allocaretaker allocatability allocatable allocate to allocated allocated name