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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
allocation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
capital
▪ On 6 December, I announced a further £7.5 million capital allocation for projects for 1992-93.
▪ Great ingenuity was expended in creative accounting to get round overall spending limits or capital allocations.
efficient
▪ For the international economy it hopefully brings about a more efficient allocation of investment or financial resources.
▪ Property rights thus have a distributional implication - who compensates whom - but also act to achieve the socially efficient allocation.
▪ The basic economic argument for the market system-that it tends to provide an efficient allocation of resources-Is not easily undermined.
▪ I believe this to be most important if we are to have rational investment decisions and efficient allocations of resources.
▪ Such specialization, we saw in Chapter 3, means a more efficient allocation of resources.
▪ The market therefore does not produce a socially efficient allocation of resources.
▪ If the market does not achieve an efficient allocation of resources there is said to be market failure.
financial
▪ The recommendations of the Working Party have been used as the basis for financial allocations to the Health Service regions since 1977.
initial
▪ City officials during that time were doing technical work and making some initial decisions about allocations of funds.
large
▪ The largest allocations went, in order of size, to education, public works, defence, local government and health.
▪ The very presence of the mines necessitated a large allocation of precious manpower to keep the roads open.
▪ Transport and communications received the largest allocation, 23.8 percent of the proposed budget, followed by agriculture with 18.5 percent.
▪ The largest allocation went on defence, at 21.3 percent of recurrent spending.
▪ Although they will not qualify for discounts or bonus shares, they will get a larger allocation.
▪ The Assembly was expanded from 195 to 250 seats, allowing for a larger allocation of seats to independent candidates.
▪ The largest rises in allocations went to security and defence.
▪ He wants a larger allocation in any case.
random
▪ The t treatments are applied within each block by random allocation to the experimental units.
total
▪ The columns on the right of the form show the total allocation to each project for the period and to date.
▪ Of the total £68.1 million allocation for community care grants, £67.4 million was spent.
▪ The main point to make about the Programme Authorities was that their total allocations from the Urban Programme were very small.
▪ The Ministry was to spend considerably more than its total allocation for the period 1964-69.
▪ It would appear that edited departmental lists only accounted for £800 or so of the total allocation.
■ NOUN
asset
▪ So some of the benefits of geographic asset allocation are lost.
▪ No one is saying that asset allocation is bad.
budget
▪ The next step was to devise a budget allocation procedure that reflected the health needs of different areas.
▪ What political strategies and tactics are used to influence budget allocations? 6.
▪ The budget allocation process is designed to support existing businesses.
▪ Three million pages of information were printed and there was no budget allocation for using outside printers.
▪ Higher spending practices were rewarded for their inefficiency and the more efficient penalised by lower budget allocations.
▪ Fees increase annually, therefore budget allocations have to accommodate this.
fund
▪ Hon. Members will be aware that the access fund allocations for the current academic year have already been made.
land
▪ That will encourage existing farmers to increase their production per hectare from their smaller land allocation.
policy
▪ The allocation policy is apparently the result of production difficulties.
▪ Access to housing Most housing departments failed to integrate disabled people into their allocation policies.
▪ An example of good practice in incorporating disabled people into an allocations policy was again provided by Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council.
▪ An insensitive allocation policy could only frustrate their efforts.
process
▪ The budget allocation process is designed to support existing businesses.
▪ The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process.
▪ In the face of competing claims on scarce resources, the allocation process can also become highly political.
▪ Allocations of large blocks to individual users should be kept to a minimum because of the inflexibility of the allocation process.
▪ The budgetary process focuses more clearly on the resource allocation process with more thorough scrutiny of existing commitments.
resource
▪ The management of resource allocation involves giving attention to all these matters and how they affect roles at different hierarchical levels.
▪ The presumption is that resource allocation will be improved upon by this type of government activity.
▪ Proposals for resource allocation according to quality of teaching as well as research endeavour are undoubtedly overdue.
▪ We stress the evils of idleness and bad resource allocation which were relevant to efforts to increase output a century ago.
▪ The final perspective upon resource allocation is by age group.
▪ There were of course anomalies, but some would have occurred whatever mechanisms for resource allocation had been adopted.
▪ Such a pattern of resource allocation is called a Pareto optimum.
▪ It is essential that the impact of resource allocation formula is justifiable on grounds other than the composition of any particular formula.
system
▪ As such it can be seen that this is not a zero-based allocation system or a total formula-based system.
▪ The first move has been in converting to a project-based resource allocation system rather than funding an overall area of activity.
task
▪ Like most other nurses at that time, Bob was used to task allocation.
▪ This was task allocation taken to its ultimate extreme.
▪ The arguments for and against task allocation are therefore quite mixed.
▪ Is there any task allocation at all - for example, do only one or two nurses give the insulin?
▪ We have considered the possibility that task allocation really serves the organisation, which is therefore the real client.
time
▪ So marginal changes in time allocation to sport may be difficult.
■ VERB
announce
▪ I shall be announcing the individual allocations for next year before Christmas.
▪ Instead, the Housing Minister announced a £100 million allocation specifically for the target areas.
based
▪ Minimum estimate of X based on maximum allocation to injuries $ 69, 000 2.
decide
▪ It would then be the responsibility of the institution itself to decide upon the detailed allocation of resources within the programme.
determine
▪ Instead, water distribution will be determined by the relative allocation of solute to the extracellular and intracellular spaces.
include
▪ At the commencement of training, each trainee should be provided with a training plan which includes details of holiday allocation.
increase
▪ We have rightly increased their allocations this year.
▪ There is some evidence that institutional investors are now more prepared to increase the allocations to gilts in their portfolios.
▪ Mr. Fallon I increased the allocation to St. Helens for improvement work from £311,000 last year to £556,000 this year.
receive
▪ When such a polarized cell divides, the two daughter cells receive different chemical allocations.
▪ The programme authorities and the designated districts receive smaller allocations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 50% of the fund will be available for allocation this year.
▪ Schools will be given cash allocations per student.
▪ Some families lie about the number of people in their household in order to get larger food stamp allocations.
▪ Special ticket allocations were made for members of the company and their guests.
▪ The allocation for atomic research has been doubled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Does the allocation plan ensure that learners' holidays are known well in advance?
▪ Governments caring sufficiently about redistribution might still prefer inefficient allocations with greater vertical equity.
▪ I just know who got the money and who approved the allocations.
▪ Most of these allocations were for parks and recreation projects.
▪ The management of resource allocation involves giving attention to all these matters and how they affect roles at different hierarchical levels.
▪ The next step was to devise a budget allocation procedure that reflected the health needs of different areas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allocation

Allocation \Al`lo*ca"tion\, n. [LL. allocatio: cf. F. allocation.]

  1. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
    --Hallam.

  2. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company.

    The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants.
    --A. R. Stanley.

  3. The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
allocation

mid-15c., from Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocationem (nominative allocatio), noun of action from past participle stem of allocare (see allocate).

Wiktionary
allocation

n. The process or procedure for allocate things, especially money or other resources.

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WordNet
allocation

  1. n. a share set aside for a specific purpose [syn: allotment]

  2. the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state" [syn: allotment, apportionment, apportioning, parceling, parcelling, assignation]

  3. (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions

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Wikipedia
Allocation

Allocation may refer to: In computers:

  • Block allocation map
  • C++ allocators
  • Delayed allocation
  • File allocation table
  • IP address allocation
  • Memory allocation
  • No-write allocation (cache)
  • Register allocation

In economics:

  • Allocation of resources
  • Asset allocation
  • Economic system
  • Market allocation scheme
  • Tax allocation district

In Telecommunication:

  • Call-sign allocation plan
  • Frequency allocation
  • Type allocation code

Other:

  • Allocation in hydrocarbon accounting to assign the proper portions of aggregated petroleum and gas flows back to contributing sources
  • Allocation voting in voting
  • Location-allocation, used in geographic information systems (GIS)
  • Resource allocation in strategic planning
  • The allocation of scarce resources in operations research
Allocation (oil and gas)

In the petroleum industry, allocation refers to practices of breaking down measures of quantities of extracted hydrocarbons across various contributing sources. Allocation aids the attribution of ownerships of hydrocarbons as each contributing element to a commingled flow or to a storage of petroleum may have a unique ownership. Contributing sources in this context are typically producing petroleum wells delivering flows of petroleum or flows of natural gas to a commingled flow or storage.

The terms hydrocarbon accounting and allocation are sometimes used interchangeably. Hydrocarbon accounting has a wider scope, taking advantages of allocation results, it is the petroleum management process by which ownership of extracted hydrocarbons is determined and tracked from a point of sale or discharge back to the point of extraction. In this way, hydrocarbon accounting also covers inventory control, material balance, and practices to trace ownership of hydrocarbons being transported in a transportation system, e.g. through pipelines to customers distant from the production plant.

In an allocation problem, contributing sources are more widely natural gas streams, fluid flows or multiphase flows derived from formations or zones in a well, from wells, and from fields, unitised production entities or production facilities. In hydrocarbon accounting, quantities of extracted hydrocarbon can be further split by ownership, by "cost oil" or "profit oil" categories, and broken down to individual composition fraction types. Such components may be alkane hydrocarbons, boiling point fractions, and mole weight fractions.

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Usage examples of "allocation".

I would fly the gear in, and my spivs would distribute it, sometimes through the black market, sometimes through the Party Allocation Bureau.

For the CIA, he essentially stopped cutting allocations and supported requests for supplemental funds for counterterrorism.

The allocation of funds should be based on an assessment of threats and vulnerabilities.

Washington to argue an allocation of seventy rather than sixty armored divisions for Ripsaw, for instance, General Grote just sat, smiled and smoked his pipe.

The time they went to Washington to argue an allocation of seventy rather than sixty armored divisions for Ripsaw, for instance, General Grote just sat, smiled and smoked his pipe.

However, men ambitious of making a name for themselves among the electors dug deep into their private purses when aediles to make the games more spectacular than the allocation of funds from the State would permit.

The two women, one Ghanian, one Brazilian, wore the blue berets of UN resource allocation officers.

As with sugar, each retailer was assigned a certain wholesale allocation of meat and, in turn, had to produce enough consumer stamps to prove its compliance with the rationing laws.

Bauerle knew that getting caught in black market meat deals would jeopardize legal allocations and effectively ruin the company.

Its local supplier offered to give White Castle "an advance" on its future allocations, but White Castle's attorney, Sain, discouraged this idea, calling it "a technical violation of the law.

Butler, Chicago, August 3, 1942, on applying for additional sugar allocations and citing specific difficulties in the application process.

But she requested four units for tactical evaluation, a request which was placed near the top of the Brass Hat committee's lengthy Candidate Allocations list.

But, in the exhaustion following the war, with the regimentation and labor allocations that had cut travel so severely, the airlines, starved for freight and passengers, had slid inevitably toward bankruptcy, in spite of the subsidies of an impoverished federal government.

It was not even clear just what groups within the Nation (or without) were benefitting from the changed interpretations of Federal law and resource allocation.

Although he doubted that anyone was trying to close down the base, or that someone was benefitting from the current allocation practices, there was no doubt in his mind that no one in the I.