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Allocation   /ˌæləkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Allocation

noun
1.
A share set aside for a specific purpose.  Synonym: allotment.
2.
The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan.  Synonyms: allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling.
3.
(computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions.  Synonym: storage allocation.



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... the context of the broad guidelines referred to in Article 103(2). The Member States and the Community shall act in accordance with the principle of an open market economy with free competition, favouring an efficient allocation of resources, and in compliance with the principle set out in Article 3a. ARTICLE 103 1. Member States shall regard their economic policies as a matter of common concern and shall co-ordinate them within the Council, in accordance ...
— The Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992 • European Union

... up spinning under the stress of factory competition, the spinner deserted his cottage and four acres in the country, to seek a dwelling near the factory which employed him; and the Elizabethan Act, insisting upon the allocation of four acres to each new cottage built, was repealed. But for that repeal, factory slums would be garden cities, unless the incubus of this provision had stopped the factory development. The final result of the inclosure movement upon the ...
— The History of England - A Study in Political Evolution • A. F. Pollard

... other extreme.[217] All the moneys of the union are kept in a single fund and are drawn upon for the payment of benefits, organizing expenses, or strike pay, as need requires. In the great majority of unions, however, a nominal allocation of funds is practised. Thus, the Typographical Union in 1906 apportioned its monthly dues as follows: five cents to the general fund; five cents to the special defense fund; seven and one half cents to the defense ...
— Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions • James B. Kennedy

... we gospel-drenched English men and women will stand in that allocation of culpability? I do not presume to say more, but I beseech you,—let no present controversies about the duration and the possible termination of retribution in another state, or the possible prolongation of a probation into another state, blind you to the fact that however these ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren

... Speculators are like wasps; for when they have once got hold of a ripening and peach-like project, they keep it rigidly for their own swarm, and repel the approach of interlopers. Notwithstanding all our efforts, and very ingenious ones they were, we never, in a single instance, succeeded in procuring an allocation of original shares; and though we did now and then make a hit by purchase, we more frequently bought at a premium, and parted with our scrip at a discount. At the end of six months, we were not twenty ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various


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