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reallocate

reallocate verb: to allocate (a resource) to another person or purpose.

Verb

reallocate (third-person singular simple present reallocates, present participle reallocating, simple past and past participle reallocated)

  1. (transitive) To allocate (a resource) to another person or purpose.
    • Near-synonym: redistribute
    • I want to reallocate some of my money from stocks to bonds. (I want to sell some of my stocks and use the proceeds to buy bonds to replace them.)
    Synonyms:
    redistribute
  2. (transitive) To allocate again.
    • Appending items one at a time is still a better deal than concatenation, which reallocates every time.

reallocate meaning in Kannada

reallocate in Kannada

ಪುನರ್ವಿಂಗಡಿಸು, ಪುನಃ ವಿತರಣೆಮಾಡು

Synonyms of reallocate

Forms of reallocate

third-person singular presentreallocates
present participlereallocating
past participlereallocated
pastreallocated

Past tense of reallocate: reallocated

Origin of reallocate

From re- + allocate.

Words formed from reallocate

Questions about reallocate

What does reallocate mean?
Reallocate means to allocate (a resource) to another person or purpose.
What is reallocate in Kannada?
Reallocate in Kannada is ಪುನರ್ವಿಂಗಡಿಸು, ಪುನಃ ವಿತರಣೆಮಾಡು. See Reallocate meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is reallocate?
Reallocate is a verb.
What is the past tense of reallocate?
The past tense of reallocate is reallocated.

Words near reallocate in the dictionary

  1. reallied
  2. reallies
  3. reallife
  4. realll
  5. reallocatable
  6. reallocate
  7. reallocated
  8. reallocates
  9. reallocating
  10. reallocation
  11. reallocations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reallocate (page history and authors); reallocate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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