allocation

English

Etymology

From Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

Noun

allocation (countable and uncountable, plural allocations)

1. The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

   The allocation of new permits is on a first-come, first-served basis.

   • 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:

     Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.

2. That which is allocated; allowance, entitlement.

   The farmer received his full allocation of water from the government.

3. (embryology) Restriction of an embryonic cell and its clonal descendants to a particular cell type or body region

Derived terms

• allocational
• allocation unit
• buddy memory allocation
• deallocation
• dynamic memory allocation
• file allocation table
• misallocation
• overallocation
• pachinko allocation
• preallocation
• reallocation
• static memory allocation
• suballocation
• underallocation

 

Translations

The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

• Bulgarian: разпределяне (bg) (razpredeljane), отпускане (bg) (otpuskane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分配 (zh) (fēnpèi)

• Danish: allokering (da)
• Dutch: allocatie (nl), toewijzing (nl)
• Finnish: allokointi (fi), jakaminen (fi), jako (fi)
• French: allocation (fr) f
• German: Vergabe (de) f, Zuteilung (de) f, Zuweisung f
• Indonesian: alokasi (id)
• Irish: leithdháileadh m, leithroinnt f
• Maori: tuw(h)anga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bevilgning m or f (money)

• Polish: alokacja (pl) f, dystrybucja (pl) f
• Portuguese: alocação (pt) f
• Russian: распределе́ние (ru) n (raspredelénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: preraspodjela (sh), redistribucija (sh) f, realokacija f, dodjela (sh) f, dodjeljivanje n
• Spanish: asignación (es) f, distribución (es) f, reparto (es) m
• Swedish: anslag (sv), fördelning (sv), tilldelning (sv)
• Tagalog: at-at
• Turkish: alokasyon

References

• allocation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (embryology) J.M.W. Slack (1991) “The concepts of experimental embryology”, in From Egg to Embryo, 2 edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 31, 32

Anagrams

• locational

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

allocation f (plural allocations)

1. allocation
2. granting, assignment
3. benefit, allowance

Derived terms

• allocation familiale

Further reading

• “allocation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.