MEANING
Assign a portion of available resources, time or capacity to a particular recipient or purpose.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- allocate resources
- allocate funding
- allocate memory
On the page
The committee allocated more time to reviewing the assumptions than to polishing the slides.
Funding was allocated according to documented need rather than institutional prestige.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- allocate
- Past tense
- allocated
- Past participle
- allocated
- Present participle
- allocating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- allocate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are allocating
- Present perfect
- have/has allocated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been allocating
- Past
- allocated
- Past continuous
- was/were allocating
- Past perfect
- had allocated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been allocating
- Future
- will allocate
- Future continuous
- will be allocating
- Future perfect
- will have allocated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been allocating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: allocate; allocates; allocated; allocated; allocating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, qualification. Disciplines: general academic writing. Commonness: common. Third-person singular: allocates.
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