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Allocate
Definitions
- 1 allocated not-comparable, obsolete
- 1 A writ authorizing payment, allowance, grant. UK, historical, obsolete
- 1 To set aside for a purpose.
"Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow."
- 2 distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose wordnet
- 3 To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
"The bulk of K–12 education funds are allocated to school districts that in turn pay for the cost of operating schools."
- 4 To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
"The memory manager allocates memory to requesting processes until there is no more memory available or until there are no more processes waiting for memory."
Etymology
From Latin allocātus, perfect passive participle of Latin allocō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + locō. Doublet of allow.
From Middle English allocat(e) (“allocated”), originally used as the past participle of allocate, from Latin allocātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
From Middle English allocate (the common first word of writs authorizing payment), from Medieval Latin allocātum, substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of allocātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Alternatively, from allocāte, the second-person plural imperative of allocō, compare English liberate (“a warrant for the payment of a pension, allowance, debt, etc.”).
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