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Apportion
Answer for the clue "Apportion ", 8 letters:
allocate
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Word definitions for allocate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from verbal used of adjective allocate (mid-15c. in legal use), from Medieval Latin allocate (the common first word of writs authorizing payment), imperative plural of allocare "allocate," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad- ) + locare "to place" (see locate ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To set aside for a purpose 2 To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition "to" 3 (context computing English) To set aside (as above), but specifically used to refer to the practice of making memory available within a computer ...
Usage examples of allocate.
The light of our world can be allocated because it springs from a corporeal mass of known position, but conceive an immaterial entity, independent of body as being of earlier nature than all body, a nature firmly self-based or, better, without need of base: such a principle, incorporeal, autonomous, having no source for its rising, coming from no place, attached to no material mass, this cannot be allotted part here and part there: that would be to give it both a previous position and a present attachment.
He had not begrudged allocating funds from the living expenses allowance to the group home, knowing that a portion of it was handed on to Marta for her own discretion.
The transnational corporations directly distribute labor power over various markets, functionally allocate resources, and organize hierarchically the various sectors of world production.
Initially we were allocated to those 19 boats intended to take up a waiting position in the Bay of Biscay.
By 1997, Iraqi food imports were higher than prewar levels in terms of dollars allocated.
I just happened to see the file on the day that the transcripts came in because we were trying to allocate credits for the nondegree graduate students.
Sales staff are expected to spend a specified proportion of their time in customer contact, with other time allocated to stocking, reshelving, and tidying the sales floor.
Although nothing was resolved that week, the managers soon started allocating limited funds earmarked for radio and television advertising, often allowing area managers the discretion to spend it.
The relationships are characterised by rampant emergentism: roles are allocated almost from the start and any deviation meets with an aggressive, even violent reaction.
Last year each of the Metro commissioners was allocated 24 tickets, while Mayor Steve Clark got 64.
After exclamations about the luxury and size of the room and after Tupper had been rushed narrowly to the bathroom, everyone was allocated a space in the bed.
They insisted that these poor nations allocate a good part of their meager resources to repaying loans to the rich countries, at the cost of cutting social services to their already desperate populations.
Practically when naturalists are at work, they do not trouble themselves about the physiological value of the characters which they use in defining a group, or in allocating any particular species.
Fields, a graveyard allocated to nonconformists, who were banned from burial in Church of England cemeteries for their refusal to use C of E prayer-books in their services.
Wu allocated three hours for them to go the two kilometers to where they would rendevous, a kilometer from where the two Raptors had vanished.