allocates

Verb

allocate (third-person singular simple present allocates, present participle allocating, simple past and past participle allocated)

1. To set aside for a purpose.
   • Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow.

   Synonyms:

   appropriate, earmark, shelve, assign, dedicate, detach, designate, preselect, put aside, secern

2. 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.
3. 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.2011, José M. Garrido, Richard Schlesinger, Kenneth Hoganson, Principles of Modern Operating Systems, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 264

   Antonyms:

   free, deallocate

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