What is "allocations"

Usage examples of "allocations".

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.