0 present 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.
Almost every explorer described his tasks in developing and allocating human and physical resources.
Thus, we undertook to examine the effect of various approaches to allocating cost when multiple diagnoses are listed for hospitalizations.
Since 1990, municipalities became teachers' employers and organisers of school activities, and became responsible for allocating resources to schools.
