Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of allocating, allotting, or assigning; allotment; assignment; apportionment: as, the allocation of shares in a public company.
- n. . An allowance made upon accounts in the exchequer.
- n. The act of locating or fixing in place; the state of being located or fixed; disposition; arrangement.
Wiktionary
- n. The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
- n. An allotment or apportionment.
- n. The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a share set aside for a specific purpose
- n. the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
- n. (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
Examples
“You'll see that not much of that higher allocation is actually spent on the Special Ed student who needs it.”
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“Achieving the right asset allocation is widely considered key to a successful portfolio.”
“Different firms have different thresholds for when to make those changes; some do it quarterly, others do it when the asset allocation is off by a certain margin.”
“We look at every single account every week to make sure the asset allocation is still in line with their investment objective.”
“A 6% allocation is in Fidelity Intermediate Municipal Income, which buys high-quality municipal bonds of five years or less duration.”
“The funding allocation is mostly out of the hands of the PSRC.”
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“The biggest single allocation is $24 million for a renewable energy grant program.”
“Just took LIII, and dynamic allocation is well-burned into my mind.”
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“Now your cash allocation is much higher than you wanted it to be.”
“Warren Buffet has said that capital/resource allocation is what he is best at and what has made him so successful.”
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