allocating

verbassign; divide among

Synonyms for allocating

verb assign; divide among

Antonyms for allocating

Word Origin & History

1630s, from verbal used of adjective allocate (mid-15c. in legal use), from Medieval Latin allocate (the common first word of writs authorizing payment), imperative plural of allocare "allocate," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + locare "to place" (see locate). Related: Allocated; allocating.

Example Sentences for allocating

It consists in taking the whole performance to pieces and allocating the praise.

How are you to subdivide these magisterial districts for the purpose of allocating members?

In the face of all this the colonies were conspicuously and notoriously unable to agree upon any principle of allocating grants.

The bill was accompanied by a financial scheme for a new system of allocating the parliamentary grant.

Allocating three percent or less of GDP for defense could easily prove to be a ceiling and not a floor.