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Allocate   /ˈæləkˌeɪt/   Listen
Allocate

verb
1.
Distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose.  Synonym: apportion.  "I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip"



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"Allocate" Quotes from Famous Books



... question, which committee reported against the office. No further step was taken at this time, the bishops being left as they were. At the next Assembly, however, held in April 1576, the committee's finding was adopted, and so far applied that all bishops who held their office 'at large' were required to allocate themselves to particular congregations. ...
— Andrew Melville - Famous Scots Series • William Morison

... fortification of posts in the West Indies and the completion of forts for the further protection of the home dockyards. On the whole, then, he reckoned that he had L600,000 to spare; and of this amount he proposed to allocate L400,000 to the reduction of the National Debt and the repeal of the extra duty on malt, an impost much disliked by farmers. He also announced a remission of permanent taxes to the extent of L200,000, namely, on female servants, carts, and waggons, and that of ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... play is The Woman Hater (1607). He is said to have died of the plague, and is buried in St. Saviour's Church, Southwark. The plays attributed to B. and F. number 52 and a masque, and much labour has been bestowed by critics in endeavouring to allocate their individual shares. It is now generally agreed that others collaborated with them to some extent—Massinger, Rowley, Shirley, and even Shakespeare. Of those believed to be the joint work of B. and F. Philaster ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin



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