Usually means: Distribute resources or duties systematically.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word Allocate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. allocate: Merriam-Webster
  2. allocate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. allocate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. allocate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. allocate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Allocate, allocate: Wordnik
  7. allocate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. allocate: Wiktionary
  9. allocate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. allocate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. allocate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. allocate: Dictionary.com
  13. allocate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. allocate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Allocate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Allocate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. allocate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. allocate: Rhymezone
  19. allocate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. allocate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. allocate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. allocate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. allocate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. allocate: Merriam-Webster

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ALLOCATE: Accounting Glossary
  2. allocate: Legal dictionary
  3. Allocate: Financial dictionary
  4. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allocate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allocate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allocate: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (allocate)

▸ verb:  To set aside for a purpose.
▸ verb:  To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
▸ verb:  (computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.

Similar:
apportion, assign, set apart, set by, hold, appropriate, dedicate, book, destine, find time, more...

Opposite:
deallocate, withdraw, revoke, remove, unassign

Types:
static, dynamic, semi-static, dynamic-semi-static, more...

Phrases:
allocate for, allocate space for something, allocate work, more...


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Similar:
apportion, assign, set apart, set by, hold, appropriate, dedicate, book, destine, find time, more...

Opposite:
deallocate, withdraw, revoke, remove, unassign

Types:
static, dynamic, semi-static, dynamic-semi-static, more...

Phrases:
allocate for, allocate space for something, allocate work, more...



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