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allocate

verb as in assign; divide among

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The opening introduces a crucial decision for retirement savers: whether to stick with the traditional lineup of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds or to allocate a portion of their savings to private markets.

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The broker will allocate the shares you bought the day after the IPO pricing, but there is no guarantee you will get the number of shares you requested.

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Shutting down stores like its flagship Seattle Reserve Roastery location was painful, but they were losing money, he said, and closing underperforming locations helps allocate resources to other cafes.

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Beyond logistical questions about what authority the administration may use to allocate that revenue, there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.

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“We must ensure that nothing like this ever happens again and that every penny that we are allocating to victims goes directly to the survivors.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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