Usually means: Distribute resources or duties systematically.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word allocate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. allocate: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  21. allocate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. allocate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ALLOCATE: Accounting Glossary
  2. allocate: Legal dictionary
  3. Allocate: Financial dictionary
  4. Allocate: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  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

(Note: See allocatable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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