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To reserve a resource such as memory or disk. See memory allocation.

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1. spread a cost over two or more accounting periods usually based on time.An example is assigning the prepaid cost of a three-year insurance policy by one-third each year.


2. charge a cost or revenue to a number of departments, products, processes, or activities on some rational basis. For example, a cost may be assigned to divisions of a company based on sales.


3. distribute the cost associated with the acquisition of two or more items based on their relative fair market values. This relates to a lump - sum purchase.

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verb

1. To set aside or apart for a specified purpose: appropriate, assign, designate, earmark. See collect/distribute, money.
2. To set aside or distribute as a share: admeasure, allot, allow, apportion, assign, give, lot, measure out, mete (out). See collect/distribute.

v

Definition: assign; divide among
Antonyms: keep, keep together

IN BRIEF: To share in portions; to distribute.

The lawyer decided to allocate the funds to her clients.

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The technique of forming groups in a population for the purpose of carrying out comparisons between them. The objective is to create comparable groups and to avoid bias. Techniques used include random allocation, self-selection or clinical judgment.

See words rhyming with "allocate."

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - tildele, fordele

Nederlands (Dutch)
toebedelen, reserveren voor

Français (French)
v. tr. - allouer, affecter, accorder, assigner, attribuer, répartir, distribuer, (Fin, Jur) ventiler

Deutsch (German)
v. - zuteilen, zur Verfügung stellen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - διαθέτω, παραχωρώ, αναθέτω, κατανέμω, διανέμω, καταμερίζω, επιμερίζω, εγγράφω κονδύλι

Italiano (Italian)
impartire

idioms:

• allocate to    assegnare a

Português (Portuguese)
v. - distribuir, determinar, alocar

idioms:

• allocate to    alocar para

Русский (Russian)
предназначать, ассигновать

idioms:

• allocate to    ассигновать на

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - asignar, repartir

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - tilldela, fördela

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
分派, 分配

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 分派, 分配

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 할당하다, 배치하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 配分する, 割り当てる

idioms:

• allocate to    配分する, 配置する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يوزع, يقسم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮הקצה, הקציב‬

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