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allocated
[ al-uh-key-tid ]
adjective
- set apart for a particular purpose or recipient; assigned or allotted:
No committee participating in this event shall receive more than its allocated share of the funds raised.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of allocate ( def ).
Other Words From
- un·al·lo·cat·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of allocated1
Example Sentences
All the slots for arrivals and departures are allocated months in advance.
The number of diplomats was pitiful (45 appointees in 1860), as was the amount of money allocated to them.
Congress initially allocated $200,000 to finish the work, but then rescinded the appropriations before it was spent.
The bill allocated billions of dollars for local jurisdictions to buy new machines.
Boustany noted with pride that the omnibus allocated $1 billion dollars to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.
The transparent and unescapable meaning is death, but the alternatives allocated to the symbol are change and transformation.
It remains to give, also briefly, the divinatory significance allocated by the same art to the Trumps Major.
The figure has been said to stand for Truth, which is, however, more properly allocated to the seventeenth card.
Here the authority is Lvi, from whom is also derived the brief symbolism allocated to the twenty-two Keys.
Those from "del Norte" are considered Huchiun and those "del Este" are allocated to area 5.
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