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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

Meaning of "allocate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ALLOCATE

From Medieval Latin allocāre, from Latin locāre to place, from locus a place.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ALLOCATE

allocate  [ˈæləˌkeɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALLOCATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Allocate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb allocate in English.

WHAT DOES ALLOCATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Allocation

Allocation may refer to: In computers: ▪ Delayed allocation ▪ Block allocation map ▪ File allocation table ▪ IP address allocation ▪ Memory allocation ▪ C++ allocators ▪ No-write allocation ▪ Register allocation In economics: ▪ Economic system ▪ Asset allocation ▪ Allocation of resources ▪ Market allocation scheme ▪ Tax allocation district In Telecommunication: ▪ Call-sign allocation plan ▪ Frequency allocation ▪ Type allocation code Other: ▪ Resource allocation in strategic planning ▪ The allocation of scarce resources in operations research ▪ Allocation voting in voting ▪ Location-allocation, used in geographic information systems ▪ Allocation in hydrocarbon accounting to assign the proper portions of aggregated petroleum and gas flows back to contributing sources...

Definition of allocate in the English dictionary

The definition of allocate in the dictionary is to assign or allot for a particular purpose.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ALLOCATE

PRESENT

Present
I allocate
you allocate
he/she/it allocates
we allocate
you allocate
they allocate
Present continuous
I am allocating
you are allocating
he/she/it is allocating
we are allocating
you are allocating
they are allocating
Present perfect
I have allocated
you have allocated
he/she/it has allocated
we have allocated
you have allocated
they have allocated
Present perfect continuous
I have been allocating
you have been allocating
he/she/it has been allocating
we have been allocating
you have been allocating
they have been allocating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I allocated
you allocated
he/she/it allocated
we allocated
you allocated
they allocated
Past continuous
I was allocating
you were allocating
he/she/it was allocating
we were allocating
you were allocating
they were allocating
Past perfect
I had allocated
you had allocated
he/she/it had allocated
we had allocated
you had allocated
they had allocated
Past perfect continuous
I had been allocating
you had been allocating
he/she/it had been allocating
we had been allocating
you had been allocating
they had been allocating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will allocate
you will allocate
he/she/it will allocate
we will allocate
you will allocate
they will allocate
Future continuous
I will be allocating
you will be allocating
he/she/it will be allocating
we will be allocating
you will be allocating
they will be allocating
Future perfect
I will have allocated
you will have allocated
he/she/it will have allocated
we will have allocated
you will have allocated
they will have allocated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been allocating
you will have been allocating
he/she/it will have been allocating
we will have been allocating
you will have been allocating
they will have been allocating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would allocate
you would allocate
he/she/it would allocate
we would allocate
you would allocate
they would allocate
Conditional continuous
I would be allocating
you would be allocating
he/she/it would be allocating
we would be allocating
you would be allocating
they would be allocating
Conditional perfect
I would have allocate
you would have allocate
he/she/it would have allocate
we would have allocate
you would have allocate
they would have allocate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been allocating
you would have been allocating
he/she/it would have been allocating
we would have been allocating
you would have been allocating
they would have been allocating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you allocate
we let´s allocate
you allocate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to allocate
Past participle
allocated
Present Participle
allocating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALLOCATE


advocate
ˈædvəˌkeɪt
altercate
ˈɔːltəˌkeɪt
authenticate
ɔːˈθɛntɪˌkeɪt
bifurcate
ˈbaɪfəˌkeɪt
collocate
ˈkɒləˌkeɪt
communicate
kəˈmjuːnɪˌkeɪt
complicate
ˈkɒmplɪˌkeɪt
convocate
ˈkɒnvəˌkeɪt
dedicate
ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt
dendrachate
ˈdɛndrəˌkeɪt
dislocate
ˈdɪsləˌkeɪt
educate
ˈɛdjʊˌkeɪt
equivocate
ɪˈkwɪvəˌkeɪt
eradicate
ɪˈrædɪˌkeɪt
indicate
ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt
invocate
ˈɪnvəˌkeɪt
misallocate
ˌmɪsˈæləˌkeɪt
reciprocate
rɪˈsɪprəˌkeɪt
replicate
ˈrɛplɪˌkeɪt
suffocate
ˈsʌfəˌkeɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALLOCATE

alloantibody
alloantigen
allobar
allocable
allocarpy
allocatable
allocation
allocator
allocheiria
allochiria
allochthonous
allocution
allod
allodia
allodial
allodium
allogamous
allogamy
allogeneic
allogenic

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALLOCATE

abdicate
birth certificate
cate
certificate
colocate
delicate
devil´s advocate
duplicate
embrocate
evocate
intricate
judge advocate
locate
Lord Advocate
mislocate
prelocate
reallocate
relocate
syndicate
translocate

Synonyms and antonyms of allocate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ALLOCATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «allocate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of allocate

Translation of «allocate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALLOCATE

Find out the translation of allocate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of allocate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «allocate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

分配
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

asignar
570 millions of speakers

English

allocate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आवंटित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تخصيص
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

выделить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

destinar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বরাদ্দ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

attribuer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memperuntukkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zuteilen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

割り当てる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

배당되다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyetujoni
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phân bổ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒதுக்கீடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाटप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ayırmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

assegnare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przydzielić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

виділити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

aloca
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διαθέσει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ken
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

allokera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tildele
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of allocate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALLOCATE»

The term «allocate» is very widely used and occupies the 22.960 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALLOCATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «allocate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «allocate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about allocate

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10 QUOTES WITH «ALLOCATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word allocate.
1
Kim Campbell
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.
2
Clayton M. Christensen
Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.
3
Ian Goldin
In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.
4
Andrea Hirata
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
5
Herman Kahn
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.
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John McAfee
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.
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Cedric Richmond
In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.
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Herbert Simon
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.
9
Jeev Milkha Singh
I have been requesting the government because it is the government which has to allocate the land to build public courses. I am willing to meet the minister and discuss ways to make courses public and more accessible to the regular sports enthusiasts.
10
Steven Sinofsky
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALLOCATE»

Discover the use of allocate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to allocate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rivers of Gold: Designing Markets To Allocate Water In ...
Rivers of Gold is the first book to provide a detailed examination of water markets and the institutional design issues associated with them. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Brent M. Haddad, 2000
2
Local Justice: How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and ...
How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens Jon Elster. allocation. Along a third dimension one would enumerate past and contemporary societies in which scarce goods have been allocated formally by institutions, rather ...
Jon Elster, 1992
3
On the Use of Transparent Formula to Allocate Federal ...
On the Use of Transparent Formulae to Allocate Federal Education Transfers Vicente Paqueo, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, and Suhas Parandekarπ Abstract One of the key questions that naturally arise in discussions of education decentralization ...
4
Homeland Security Grants: Observations on Process DHS Used ...
DHS reported that the aim of considering both factors — risk and effectiveness — is to allocate and apply HSGP resources to generate the highest return on investment and, as a result, to strengthen national preparedness. The risk and ...
United States, Senate, Committee on Homeland Security, Government Accountability Office, Committee on Appropriations, Congress, House, Jr William O Jenkins
5
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 12, Banks and Banking, ...
15% and that the consumer pays $800 in excess of the required minimum periodic payment. A savings association using this method would allocate $500 to pay off the cash advance balance and then allocate the remaining $300 to the  ...
‎2010
6
Library space planning: how to assess, allocate, and ...
Intended as a guide for all types and sizes of libraries.
Ruth A. Fraley, Carol Lee Anderson, 1985
7
Process-Based Software Project Management
Using this process model, that notion would be implemented as a high-level step called "Allocate Requirements" within any "Design Down" activity. Being a high- level step ensures that it gets done. I was only partially correct. It is certainly true ...
F. Alan Goodman, 2006
8
Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation
... 811,812 (AggregateVolume Private Data), 592, 593 (Allocate and initialize sampl e), 24, 25 (Allocate and request samples for sampling all lights), 724, 725, 758 (Allocate and request samples for sampling one light), 724, 725 (Allocate BSDF ...
Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, 2004
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ABCs of z/OS System Programming
MDS will attempt to allocate the minimum number of direct-access devices for a job. Other devices are allocated based on the amount required for the entire job. THWS Specifies that high watermark setup is to occur for only tape units identified ...
Paul Rogers, Juha Vainikainen, IBM Redbooks, 2012
10
1980 Census of Population and Housing: Text
PERSONS WITH ONE OR MORE ITWS ALLOCATE) 111 PA29. PERSONS IN HOUSEHOLDS FOR WHOM RELATIONSHIP WAS ALLOC AT H) 111 PA30. PERSONS FOR WHOM SEX WAS ALLOCATE) 111 PA31. PERSONS FOR WHOM ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALLOCATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term allocate is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Resolution to allocate CDBG funds to be presented to council
Approval of a resolution that will formalize the Joplin City Council's agreement last month to adopt a $97 million proposed spending plan for ... «Joplin Globe, Jul 15»
2
Russia to allocate $54m to Armenia
A delegation led by Armenian Finance Minister Gagik Khachatryan in Moscow took part in the session of the board of the Eurasian Fund of ... «News.Az, Jul 15»
3
Govt to allocate budget for reconstruction under separate heading
KATHMANDU, JUL 05 - Minister for Finance Ram Sharan Mahat has said the budget for reconstruction of the quake-hit structures would be ... «E Kantipur, Jul 15»
4
Corner Brook Votes to Allocate Funds for New Fire Truck
The city called an emergency meeting Friday to deal with the issue, and voted to allocate $500,000 to buy a new pumper. Mayor Charles ... «VOCM, Jul 15»
5
MPs must allocate funds to ensure construction of toilets: Barkha …
MPs must allocate money to ensure that toilets are built in every house to prevent such incidents," said Shukla. A 17-year-old girl allegedly ... «Web India, Jul 15»
6
KWAP to allocate RM100m to external fund manager
KUALA LUMPUR: Kumpulan Wang Amanah Pencen Inc (KWAP), the retirement Fund Inc, plans to allocate RM100mil to be managed by a fund ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»
7
WB to allocate $200M to Uzbekistan for reconstruction of roads
WB intends to allocate a total of $1.3 billion to Uzbekistan to implement 15 investment projects in the sphere of energy, transport, melioration, ... «Trend News Agency, Jul 15»
8
Police allocate extra officers for 4th of July, issue firework warnings
Watch fireworks. Don't get your own fireworks. That's the message from New Jersey police departments and the State Police, which is ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
9
Armenian Government to Allocate $9.2 Million for Provinces
The Armenian government, at a cabinet session today, approved the allocation of 4.4 billion AMD (US$9.254) to solve the most pressing ... «Hetq Online, Jul 15»
10
Allocate Funds for Jiggers, Says Ahadi Boss
COUNTY governments have been urged to allocate funds in their budgets to fight jigger infestation. Ahadi Kenya Trust CEO Stanley Kamau ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»

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