allocation
/ˌæl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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Australia/ˌæl.əˈkæɪ.ʃən/
allocation noun: the process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
Noun
allocation (countable and uncountable, plural allocations)
- The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
- The allocation of new permits is on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27
- Synonyms:
- apportionment
- That which is allocated; allowance, entitlement.
- The farmer received his full allocation of water from the government.
- Restriction of an embryonic cell and its clonal descendants to a particular cell type or body region.
allocation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
allocation in Hindi
- The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
- आवंटन āvaṇṭan
allocation in Tamil
- ஒதுக்கீடு, பங்கீடு, இடக்குறிப்பீடு, இடஒதுக்கீடு, பங்கு ஒதுக்கிவைத்த தொகை, மானியம்
allocation in Urdu
- تعین, تقسیم, تَجویز, سُپُرد کَرنے کا عمَل, تَفویض, بَٹوارَہ
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- allocation in Bengali
- বরাদ্দ
- allocation in Telugu
- కేటాయింపు
- allocation in Malayalam
- നീക്കിവയ്ക്കൽ, പ്രത്യേകോപയോഗത്തിനു മാറ്റിവയ്ക്കൽ, വകയിരുത്തൽ, ഭജനം
- allocation in Kannada
- ಮೊಬಲಗು, ಮೊತ್ತ, ಗೊತ್ತು ಮಾಡುವಿಕೆ, ನಿಗದಿಪಡಿಸುವಿಕೆ
- allocation in Punjabi
- ਵੰਡ vaṇḍ
- allocation in Gujarati
- ફાળવણી phāḷvaṇī
- allocation in Odia
- ଆବଣ୍ଟନ
- allocation in Tagalog
- alokasyon
- allocation in Arabic
- تَخْصِيص taḵṣīṣ
- allocation in Indonesian
- alokasi
Examples of allocation in a sentence
- Without a tariff, the competitive equilibrium outcome coincides with the first best allocation.
- Autoboxing involves the dynamic allocation of memory and initialization of an object for each primitive.
- The timing of budset was the most important factor in determining allocation differences between the clones.
Synonyms of allocation
Forms of allocation
| plural | allocations |
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Origin of allocation
From Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiō. By surface analysis, allocate + -ion.
Words formed from allocation
Phrases with allocation
Questions about allocation
- What does allocation mean?
- Allocation means the process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
- What is allocation in Hindi?
- Allocation in Hindi is आवंटन (āvaṇṭan). See Allocation meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is allocation?
- Allocation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce allocation?
- Allocation is pronounced /ˌæl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of allocation?
- The plural of allocation is allocations.
Words near allocation in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: allocation (page history and authors); allocation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allocation (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); allocation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allocation (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allocation (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); allocation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); allocation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਵੰਡ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ફાળવણી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); allocation (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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