allocation
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He said recheck your allocation, adjust it periodically, make sure that your allocation, meaning how many stocks, how many bonds, how much cash, is appropriate for you.
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- The act of allocating, allotting, or assigning; allotment; assignment; apportionment: as, the allocation of shares in a public company. Under a juster allocation of his rank, as the general father of prose composition. Herodotus is nearly related to all literature whatsoever, modern not less than ancient. De Quincey, Herodotus.
- 2. An allowance made upon accounts in the exchequer.
- The act of locating or fixing in place; the state of being located or fixed; disposition; arrangement. How easy it is to bear in mind or to map such an allocation of lines, so that when produced from an unknown body the existence of either [sodium or magnesium] can be detected by such spectral examination. J. N. Lockyer, Spect. Anal., p. 45.
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ROMANS: I think a great point, too, is if you're freaking out about what your allocation is and you haven't been doing your job, which is to have an allocation so if something like this has you are comfortable with where you are and you can reassess things, right?
— CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2007 -
He said recheck your allocation, adjust it periodically, make sure that your allocation, meaning how many stocks, how many bonds, how much cash, is appropriate for you.
— CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2009 -
I will be changing my asset relocation -- allocation, rather, to 80/20 very soon.
— CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2007 -
This allocation is an addition to the sum the government can spend each year.
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"port outward, starboard homeward," denoting preferential cabin allocation for important passengers.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
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