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allocation|æləʊˈkeɪʃən|
[a. Fr. allocation, ad. med.L. allocātiōn-em, n. of action f. allocāre (see allocate v.), or perh. direct ad. med.L.]
1. a. The action of apportioning or assigning to a special person or purpose; apportionment, assignment, allotment.
1833Chalmers Constit. Man (1835) I. vi. 275 At the first allocations of property. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VIII. lxiii. 55 Domitian..had respected this allocation of the imperial treasures. c1854Stanley Sinai & Pal. ii. (1858) 133 The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. 1876N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 456 The whole subtle question of the allocation of powers under the Constitution.
†b. concr. A portion of revenue, etc. assigned to a distinct purpose, constituting a fixed charge upon it. Obs.
1535Gardiner in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1822) I. i. xxx. 328 In the deductions and allocations..we have followed in our judgment..the words of our instructions. c1630Jackson Creed iv. iii. iii. Wks. III. 393 Revenues without such allocations or deductions. Ibid. xi. xliii. Wks. XI. 291 We shall be able to make the deductions or allocations somewhat equal.
†c. A portion of revenue settled on a particular person; an allowance. Obs.
1658Phillips, Allocations are also the Allowances of Officers under a Prince or Nobleman.
d. spec. The allotment of available materials, provisions, etc., by the government or other authority.
1940Economist 24 Aug. 237/1 The Select Committee recommends that allocation—that is, the rationing of materials—should be centralised and applied to every material that is scarce enough to form a bottleneck in the process of production. 1951E. A. G. Robinson in D. N. Chester Lessons Brit. War Econ. iii. 57 As the war developed the need for critical allocation of resources increased progressively. 1951R. Pares Ibid. x. 154 The allocation and use of scarce resources.
e. A portion allocated in this way.
1940Times 6 Feb. 5/3 Allocations will be based on the actual sales made by the butchers. 1947J. Hayward Prose Lit. since 1939 19 Commercial publishers..had some cause to resent the intrusion of a rival with an unlimited allocation of paper. 1947Ann. Reg. 1946 30 [The Minister of Food] has been successful in getting an allocation of 1,550,000 tons [of rice] for India.
2. The action of allowing or admitting an item in an account; also, the item so allowed. (A common sense in med.L.)
1658Phillips, Allocation, properly a Placing or Adding to. In a Law sense, an Allowance made upon an Account in the Exchequer. 1681Blount Glossogr., Allocation..also allowance made upon an account. 1751Chambers Cycl., Allocation, Allocatio, the admitting or allowing of an article in an account..Allocation is also an allowance made upon an account; used in the exchequer.
3. The placing or adding of one thing to another; disposition, arrangement.
1656Blount Glossogr., Allocation, a placing or adding unto. 1755in Johnson. 1838Hallam Hist. Lit. II. iii. ii. §58. 447 That inconsequent allocation of his proofs which frequently occurs in his writings.
4. Placing; fixing in a place; localization.
1855Owen Vertebr. Introd. 5 (L.) The allocation of the..albuminous electric pulp in a special cylindrical cavity. |