allocate
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Bankers will make phone calls to feverishly allocate some $80 billion worth of shares and pair buyers and sellers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
Watt says he will allocate nearly 20% of shares in his new beer company, called Second Best, to people who lost money after investing in Brewdog's Equity for Punks scheme.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
Your own risk tolerance should also help guide how you allocate your investments from here.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
The union also wanted Samsung to abolish a bonus cap of 50% of annual salaries and allocate 15% of annual operating profit to a bonus pool distributed to workers.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
He looked at his little sister and tried to allocate blame so it all fell on her, but he couldn’t.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Vocabulary lists containing allocate
Grade 9, List 6
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