Allocate
verb
To give or assign something for a particular purpose.
The manager has to allocate tasks to his team members.
Often appears as...
- allocate resources
- allocate time
verb
To set aside for a particular purpose.
We need to allocate a portion of the budget for emergency expenses.
Often appears as...
- allocate budget
- allocate money
verb
To decide officially to use something in a particular way.
The court will allocate the property among the heirs.
Often appears as...
- allocate property
- allocate assets
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Formal
verb
To give or assign something for a particular purpose.
The manager has to allocate tasks to his team members.
Often appears as...
- allocate resources
- allocate time
verb
To set aside for a particular purpose.
We need to allocate a portion of the budget for emergency expenses.
Often appears as...
- allocate budget
- allocate money
verb
To decide officially to use something in a particular way.
The court will allocate the property among the heirs.
Often appears as...
- allocate property
- allocate assets
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Purpose Specific
Use 'allocate' to show something is given a special reason or goal.
We allocate Wednesday afternoons for team-building activities.
Pro Tip 2/3Limited Resources
Suggests there's a need to distribute limited resources carefully.
The charity needs to allocate its funds carefully to various projects.
Pro Tip 3/3Responsibility
Indicates the act of giving someone a task or resource to manage.
Each member is allocated an area of the project to lead.
Pro Tip 1/3Purpose Specific
Use 'allocate' to show something is given a special reason or goal.
We allocate Wednesday afternoons for team-building activities.
Pro Tip 2/3Limited Resources
Suggests there's a need to distribute limited resources carefully.
The charity needs to allocate its funds carefully to various projects.
Pro Tip 3/3Responsibility
Indicates the act of giving someone a task or resource to manage.
Each member is allocated an area of the project to lead.
Pro Tip 1/3Purpose Specific
Use 'allocate' to show something is given a special reason or goal.
We allocate Wednesday afternoons for team-building activities.
Pro Tip 2/3Limited Resources
Suggests there's a need to distribute limited resources carefully.
The charity needs to allocate its funds carefully to various projects.
Pro Tip 3/3Responsibility
Indicates the act of giving someone a task or resource to manage.
Each member is allocated an area of the project to lead.
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Chasing Rivers, Part 1:...
'We need help' and U.S said 'Alright'. So, they came back to the table and said 'Alright, We are going to renegotiate Mexico's water, they do get an allocation, but now they are gonna make sure that Mexico's allocation is shares in surplus and shortage and that they will dedicate some water to the delta. So, this was that water dedicated. It was released for eight weeks to see how it did
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How state budgets are...
Well we need money to experiment with that, to get those tools in there. There's the idea of paying teachers for effectiveness, measuring them, giving them feedback, taking videos in the classroom. That's something I think is very, very important. Well you have to allocate dollars for that system
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In the market for...
with time where with leaders welcome help many try to force fit their to-do list on an urgent and important matrix but our life confused about how to allocate their time and always feel like they're worried they're working in the wrong box a more powerful picture of
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The next software...
They can even self-repair. Consider, for example, the humble household plant, like that one sat on your mantelpiece at home that you keep forgetting to water. Every day, despite your neglect, that plant has to wake up and figure out how to allocate its resources.
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The future of money PIPE...
programmable money is going to change the way we pay, allocate and decide on value. So what kind of world does programmable money create? Imagine a world where I can rent out my healthcare data to a pharmaceutical company. They can run large-scale data analysis
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How optical illusions...
See? Our visual tricks have revealed your brain's job as a busy director of 3D animation in a studio inside your skull, allocating cognitive energy and constructing a world on the fly with tried and mostly -- but not always -- true tricks of its own.
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Tim Jackson: An economic...
and allocating them into the protection of ecological resources. It's a different kind of enterprise for a new economy. It's a form, if you like, of ecological altruism -- perhaps something along those lines. Maybe it's that.
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6 ways mushrooms can...
are trying to allocate resources in order to protect the biosphere. Going way out, dark matter conforms to the same mycelial archetype. I believe matter begets life; life becomes single cells; single cells become strings;
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How Too Many Rules at...
To cooperate is not a super effort, it is how you allocate your effort. It is to take a risk, because you sacrifice the ultimate protection granted by objectively measurable individual performance.
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New thinking on the...
global, world war -- strategic conflicts. And each level of conflict requires a different allocation of resources, a different approach, a different organizational model.
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Chasing Rivers, Part 1:...
'We need help' and U.S said 'Alright'. So, they came back to the table and said 'Alright, We are going to renegotiate Mexico's water, they do get an allocation, but now they are gonna make sure that Mexico's allocation is shares in surplus and shortage and that they will dedicate some water to the delta. So, this was that water dedicated. It was released for eight weeks to see how it did
Video examples
How state budgets are...
Well we need money to experiment with that, to get those tools in there. There's the idea of paying teachers for effectiveness, measuring them, giving them feedback, taking videos in the classroom. That's something I think is very, very important. Well you have to allocate dollars for that system
Video examples
In the market for...
with time where with leaders welcome help many try to force fit their to-do list on an urgent and important matrix but our life confused about how to allocate their time and always feel like they're worried they're working in the wrong box a more powerful picture of
Video examples
The next software...
They can even self-repair. Consider, for example, the humble household plant, like that one sat on your mantelpiece at home that you keep forgetting to water. Every day, despite your neglect, that plant has to wake up and figure out how to allocate its resources.
Video examples
The future of money PIPE...
programmable money is going to change the way we pay, allocate and decide on value. So what kind of world does programmable money create? Imagine a world where I can rent out my healthcare data to a pharmaceutical company. They can run large-scale data analysis
Video examples
How optical illusions...
See? Our visual tricks have revealed your brain's job as a busy director of 3D animation in a studio inside your skull, allocating cognitive energy and constructing a world on the fly with tried and mostly -- but not always -- true tricks of its own.
Video examples
Tim Jackson: An economic...
and allocating them into the protection of ecological resources. It's a different kind of enterprise for a new economy. It's a form, if you like, of ecological altruism -- perhaps something along those lines. Maybe it's that.
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
are trying to allocate resources in order to protect the biosphere. Going way out, dark matter conforms to the same mycelial archetype. I believe matter begets life; life becomes single cells; single cells become strings;
Video examples
How Too Many Rules at...
To cooperate is not a super effort, it is how you allocate your effort. It is to take a risk, because you sacrifice the ultimate protection granted by objectively measurable individual performance.
Video examples
New thinking on the...
global, world war -- strategic conflicts. And each level of conflict requires a different allocation of resources, a different approach, a different organizational model.
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Bhavish Aggarwal
Indian Businessman
Maps help us in tracking our cabs - if they're idle, headed for a booking, or in the midst of a trip. With custom systems built atop maps using available APIs, we are able to manage our inventory extremely well, predict ETAs for customers, and optimally allocate the nearest cab to a booking request.
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Dale T. Mortensen
American Economist
Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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Eric Maskin
American Economist
In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.
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Toshihiko Fukui
Japanese Public Servant
Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.
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Anthony Noto
American Businessman
Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.
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George M. Church
American Scientist
Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.
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Clayton M. Christensen
American Author
I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.
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Jessica McDonald
American Athlete
For me as a mom, not an allocated player, there have been some years that have been a difficult journey because NWSL doesn't really support mothers.
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Whitney Tilson
American Businessman
I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.
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John C. Bogle
American Businessman
Never underrate the importance of asset allocation.
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Bhavish Aggarwal
Indian Businessman
Maps help us in tracking our cabs - if they're idle, headed for a booking, or in the midst of a trip. With custom systems built atop maps using available APIs, we are able to manage our inventory extremely well, predict ETAs for customers, and optimally allocate the nearest cab to a booking request.
Quote examples
Dale T. Mortensen
American Economist
Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
Quote examples
Eric Maskin
American Economist
In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.
Quote examples
Toshihiko Fukui
Japanese Public Servant
Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.
Quote examples
Anthony Noto
American Businessman
Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.
Quote examples
George M. Church
American Scientist
Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.
Quote examples
Clayton M. Christensen
American Author
I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.
Quote examples
Jessica McDonald
American Athlete
For me as a mom, not an allocated player, there have been some years that have been a difficult journey because NWSL doesn't really support mothers.
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Whitney Tilson
American Businessman
I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.
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John C. Bogle
American Businessman
Never underrate the importance of asset allocation.
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