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allocation

[al-uh-key-shuhn] / ˌæl əˈkeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
distribution
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STRONG


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That £27.4m is being spent via Stormont departments, with the biggest allocation of £13m going to the Department for the Economy.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

The group also raised its earnings per share purchase-price allocation guidance to between 11.20 and 11.50 euros from 10.70 to 11.10 euros previously.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Cedars-Sinai spokeswoman Sally Stewart added in an emailed statement that “changing the allocation formula risks undermining the system that Measure B was designed to protect and sustain.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Seats would be awarded by moving down that ranking until each party had filled its national allocation.

From Science Daily Aug. 2, 2026

None had their complete allocation of walls and ceilings.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

In his role, Hilliard was in charge of managing employee product benefit allocations from the Nike Elite program.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Ares’s alternative credit strategy focuses on asset-based finance, a fast-growing area of private credit that has attracted sizable capital allocations from investors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The $48 billion BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities Portfolio Fund has sizable allocations to mortgage securities—agency and nonagency—and non-U.S. debt.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Congress has in the past adjusted the payroll-tax allocations between trust funds when needed.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

Shift schedules, fund allocations, project juggling, out-and-out looting of other projects . . . he'd never pulled so many stunts in his life.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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