Synonyms for allocating
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : al-uh-keyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈæl əˌkeɪt |
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Définition of allocating
Origin :- 1630s, from verbal used of adjective allocate (mid-15c. in legal use), from Medieval Latin allocate (the common first word of writs authorizing payment), imperative plural of allocare "allocate," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + locare "to place" (see locate). Related: Allocated; allocating.
- verb assign; divide among
- It consists in taking the whole performance to pieces and allocating the praise.
- Extract from : « Faces in the Fire » by Frank W. Boreham
- How are you to subdivide these magisterial districts for the purpose of allocating members?
- Extract from : « Liberalism and the Social Problem » by Winston Spencer Churchill
- In the face of all this the colonies were conspicuously and notoriously unable to agree upon any principle of allocating grants.
- Extract from : « The Story of Newfoundland » by Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead
- The bill was accompanied by a financial scheme for a new system of allocating the parliamentary grant.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 » by Various
- Allocating three percent or less of GDP for defense could easily prove to be a ceiling and not a floor.
- Extract from : « Shock and Awe » by Harlan K. Ullman
Antonyms for allocating
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