0 past simple and past participle of allocate
1 to give something to someone as their share of a total amount, to use in a particular way:
The government is allocating £10 million for health education.
[ + two objects ] As project leader, you will have to allocate people jobs/allocate jobs to people.
It is not the job of the investigating committee to allocate blame for the disaster/to allocate blame to individuals.
The local council has decided not to allocate funds for the project.
The president has agreed to allocate further funds to develop the new submarine.
Tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Try to allocate yourself a set time each day to practise your exercises.
The top half of the students was allocated to the key class and the poorer half to the ordinary one.
Patients can be randomly allocated to different treatment groups using tables of random numbers.
Resources allocated to reproduction will, therefore, be diminished.
