allocation
Other forms: allocations
If it is your job to decide how much money goes to three charities, you are in charge of the allocation of your donation. The money each charity gets is their allocation.
You'll often hear this word used when talking about things like government funding. People often debate the allocation of federal funds. Should tax dollars be used for the military, or for domestic needs like education and healthcare? These decisions are made by Congress and the President, who work together to create a budget to allocate funds appropriately.
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the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plansynonyms: allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcellingtypes:reallocation, reallotment, reapportionmenta new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)dealthe act of apportioning or distributing somethingrationingthe act of rationingblock granta grant of federal money to state and local governments to support social welfare programsgrant-in-aida grant from a central government to a local governmentreshufflea redistribution of somethingnew deala reapportioning of somethingtype of:distributionthe act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
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(computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructionssynonyms: storage allocation
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a share set aside for a specific purposesynonyms: allotmenttypes:reallocationa share that has been allocated againquotaa proportional share assigned to each participanttype of:part, percentage, portion, shareassets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
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As he prepared to leave the office of President in 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a farewell speech in which he warned Americans about the growing influence of what he called the "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower, the former World War II general and D-Day Commander, feared the increasing power of corporations that had grown to supply the United States with military equipment and weapons.
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