allocationn.

Brit.

/ˌaləˈkeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌæləˈkeɪʃən/

Forms: Middle English allocacion, 1500s– allocation.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin allocation-, allocatio.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin allocation-, allocatio action of allowing or admitting an item in an account (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), acceptance as legally valid, hire (from 13th cent. in British sources) < allocat- , past participial stem of allocare (see allocate v.) + classical Latin -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French allocacion , Middle French, French allocation registration (1478 in an apparently isolated attestation), action of allowing or admitting an item in an account (1516), loan in either goods or money (1845). With sense 4 compare allocate v. 3.

†a. Law. Authorization. Cf. allocate v. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting > by government or authority

allocation1447

1447–8 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 126 They surmytten nor generall ne speciall seysyn therof, ne non allocacion [MS allocucion] by Quo Waranto generall ne speciall.

b. The action of allowing or admitting an item in an account; an instance of this. Also: the item so allowed; an allowance; (sometimes) spec. a portion of revenue settled on a particular person. Now rare (in later use merged in sense 3b).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance

allocate1438

allowance1440

liveringa1500

lowing1533

allocation1535

aliment1563

allowment1646

allowance money1700

appointmenta1715

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > specific processes

allowance1528

allocation1535

writing1732

liquidating1749

set-off1766

write-back1873

whack1885

clear-up1901

virement1902

accrual accounting1915

writedown1920

accruals accounting1963

cookie jar1975

society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > pay-allowances

allocation1658

field allowance1744

bat-money1793

proficiency pay1906

1535 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 2 May (1933) 64 Dividing the charge committed unto us in two partes, whereof the oon was, to knowe the true value, the other, to graunte allocations and deductions.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. G3^v A generall booke, that sheweth the difference betweene their receipts or burden, and their allowances, commonly called (allocations).

a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) 3734 A good Auditor must be able..to make right Allocations or Deductions... Let them lay the Charge of the later Jews trespasses as deep as they list, or can; we shall be able to make the Deductions or Allocations much-what equal.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Allocations, the allowances of Officers under a Prince, or great man.

1728 E. Chambers 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.

1759 New Oxf. Guide 56 Nathanael Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham; who, about the year, 1717, added to the Headship an annual allocation of twenty pounds; to the twelve Fellowships ten pounds each; [etc.].

1793 A. Scott Plain Reasons for Adopting Plan of Friends of People 12 Our church having no patrimony, and the stipends being allocations out of the tithes, the respective land-holders will claim them as their own.

1827 in Evid. Commissioners Universities Scotl. (1837) III. 115 He is authorized, by his original gift, to get an allocation upon any part of the Archbishopric for this £105.

1859 J. T. Gilbert Hist. Dublin III. iii. 196 A city assessment of 1712 records an allocation for ‘making a crown causeway through Grafton-street’.

1996 Y. T. Assis Jewish Econ. Medieval Crown Aragon v. 155 Alfonso III notified the Barcelona community that all grants, annuities and allocations from their taxes made to any person were now cancelled and the entire tax should be paid to him.

†2. The action of placing one thing next to or with another; the manner in which this is done; spatial disposition or arrangement. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun]

ordinancec1390

compositionc1400

order?a1425

rayc1440

ordination1531

dispose1603

divisiona1616

compositure1625

composure1628

method1640

tactics1650

allocation1656

rangement1674

schematism1701

arrangement1715

orderedness1724

groupment1837

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Allocation, a placing or adding unto.

1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World vi. 132 They are so Mist per omnia by the former Experiment of their Condensation, which can not Possibly be only by Aggregation or Allocation.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Allocation, the act of putting one thing to another.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. ii. 112 That inconsequent allocation of his proofs which frequently occurs in his writings.

a. The action or fact of setting aside or designating something as being the special share or responsibility of a particular person, department, etc., or as having a particular purpose; apportionment, allotment. Also: distribution or disposition of something among several recipients, parties, etc., in this way; the way in which this has been done in a particular instance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting

signmentc1425

lotting1449

assignmenta1464

repartition1555

enterpartening1556

allotment?1571

assigning1580

stalment1581

assignation1600

applotment1633

applotting1642

allocation1721

cavelling1805

committal1832

society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment

besight1258

ordainmenta1325

constitution1393

assignationa1400

signmentc1425

appointmentc1440

steveningc1440

pointingc1449

ordinationc1450

instituting1534

prescription1542

prescribement1563

assignment1597

nomination1597

designation1609

consignation1650

reassignment1650

reassignation1655

consignmenta1668

appunctuation1768

destination1868

allocation1876

1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. ii. xiii. 494 To Morrow the Allocation [for quartering troops] was made, and the Fourteen hundred came to Nine hundred, of which I had Twenty for my Share.

1759 J. Whitaker Let. 3 Sept. in J. Nichols Coll. Hist. Berks (1783) 84 The only public charity or benefaction within this parish is an allocation of a house, a garden, and 4½ acres of land, to the special purposes of beautifying the church.

1794 G. Rennie & R. Brown Appeal Public 3 Great complaints have been made against the administration of the road work in this county, which has of late induced a number of respectable proprietors to pay more attention than formerly to the parochial accounts of its allocation and expenditure.

1813 W. Leslie Gen. View Agric. Nairn & Moray (new ed.) viii. 233 A commodious well sheltered enclosure could be formed..by an allocation to each [owner], of a section of the glen.

c1854 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 133 The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants.

1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lxiii. 55 Domitian..had respected this allocation of the imperial treasures.

1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 456 The whole subtle question of the allocation of powers under the Constitution.

1916 Times 28 Nov. 9/1 The Kriegsamt..is responsible for the provision of raw materials, arms, munitions, and drafts, with the allocation of labour to works, and with the feeding of workers.

1946 A. Monkman in H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding vii. 81/1 All he [sc. the layout man] requires for his work is the general plan, indicating type sizes and faces and allocations of white space.

1968 E. C. Smith & A. J. Zurcher Dict. Amer. Politics 230 The Senate majority leader controls the allocation of time and the priority of measures.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 May 20/4 In spite of excessive allocation of whole walls to explanatory texts and photographs, the visitor is left bemused.

b. That which is allocated to a particular person, purpose, etc.; a portion, a share; a quota.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > according to amount available

allocation1839

1839 N. Ogle Colony Western Austral. 174 Every colonist was obliged to select his allocation within a certain distance of a place of worship.

1863 Farmer's Mag. July 76/1 The department of the Côte d'Or recently devoted a small allocation to the organization of an exhibition confined wholly to horse stock.

1929 A. Shadwell Typhoeus iv. 90 22.7 per cent. had received an allocation of land and 40.6 per cent. had received compensation in money.

1940 Times 6 Feb. 5/3 Allocations will be based on the actual sales made by the butchers.

1947 J. Hayward Prose Lit. since 1939 19 Commercial publishers..had some cause to resent the intrusion of a rival with an unlimited allocation of paper.

1985 M. Stott Before I Go viii. 175 Each day of the week had..its allocation of jobs.

2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. vii. 93 Monks in the Middle Ages..had an allocation of around ten pints of ‘small beer’..every day.

†4. Placement; location. Cf. allocate v. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun]

layingc1330

pitchinga1398

settinga1398

couchingc1400

stowingc1440

placingc1449

stelling1560

disposition1563

location1568

planting1585

situation1589

collocation1605

situating1611

disposurea1625

depositure1635

allodgement1639

instalment1646

fixation1652

deposition1659

lodgement1713

repositing1713

emplacement1742

bestowal1773

locating1774

disposal1828

placement1844

allocation1846

enlodgement1884

siting1902

1846 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Vertebr. Animals 5 The allocation of the mysterious albuminous electric pulp in a special cylindrical cavity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	allocation
释义	allocationn. Brit. /ˌaləˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌæləˈkeɪʃən/ Forms: Middle English allocacion, 1500s– allocation. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin allocation-, allocatio. Etymology: < post-classical Latin allocation-, allocatio action of allowing or admitting an item in an account (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), acceptance as legally valid, hire (from 13th cent. in British sources) < allocat- , past participial stem of allocare (see allocate v.) + classical Latin -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French allocacion , Middle French, French allocation registration (1478 in an apparently isolated attestation), action of allowing or admitting an item in an account (1516), loan in either goods or money (1845). With sense 4 compare allocate v. 3. 1. †a. Law. Authorization. Cf. allocate v. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting > by government or authority allocation1447 1447–8 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 126 They surmytten nor generall ne speciall seysyn therof, ne non allocacion [MS allocucion] by Quo Waranto generall ne speciall. b. The action of allowing or admitting an item in an account; an instance of this. Also: the item so allowed; an allowance; (sometimes) spec. a portion of revenue settled on a particular person. Now rare (in later use merged in sense 3b). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance allocate1438 allowance1440 liveringa1500 lowing1533 allocation1535 aliment1563 allowment1646 allowance money1700 appointmenta1715 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > specific processes allowance1528 allocation1535 writing1732 liquidating1749 set-off1766 write-back1873 whack1885 clear-up1901 virement1902 accrual accounting1915 writedown1920 accruals accounting1963 cookie jar1975 society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > pay-allowances allocation1658 field allowance1744 bat-money1793 proficiency pay1906 1535 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 2 May (1933) 64 Dividing the charge committed unto us in two partes, whereof the oon was, to knowe the true value, the other, to graunte allocations and deductions. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. G3^v A generall booke, that sheweth the difference betweene their receipts or burden, and their allowances, commonly called (allocations). a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) 3734 A good Auditor must be able..to make right Allocations or Deductions... Let them lay the Charge of the later Jews trespasses as deep as they list, or can; we shall be able to make the Deductions or Allocations much-what equal. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Allocations, the allowances of Officers under a Prince, or great man. 1728 E. Chambers 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. 1759 New Oxf. Guide 56 Nathanael Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham; who, about the year, 1717, added to the Headship an annual allocation of twenty pounds; to the twelve Fellowships ten pounds each; [etc.]. 1793 A. Scott Plain Reasons for Adopting Plan of Friends of People 12 Our church having no patrimony, and the stipends being allocations out of the tithes, the respective land-holders will claim them as their own. 1827 in Evid. Commissioners Universities Scotl. (1837) III. 115 He is authorized, by his original gift, to get an allocation upon any part of the Archbishopric for this £105. 1859 J. T. Gilbert Hist. Dublin III. iii. 196 A city assessment of 1712 records an allocation for ‘making a crown causeway through Grafton-street’. 1996 Y. T. Assis Jewish Econ. Medieval Crown Aragon v. 155 Alfonso III notified the Barcelona community that all grants, annuities and allocations from their taxes made to any person were now cancelled and the entire tax should be paid to him. †2. The action of placing one thing next to or with another; the manner in which this is done; spatial disposition or arrangement. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] ordinancec1390 compositionc1400 order?a1425 rayc1440 ordination1531 dispose1603 divisiona1616 compositure1625 composure1628 method1640 tactics1650 allocation1656 rangement1674 schematism1701 arrangement1715 orderedness1724 groupment1837 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Allocation, a placing or adding unto. 1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World vi. 132 They are so Mist per omnia by the former Experiment of their Condensation, which can not Possibly be only by Aggregation or Allocation. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Allocation, the act of putting one thing to another. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. ii. 112 That inconsequent allocation of his proofs which frequently occurs in his writings. 3. a. The action or fact of setting aside or designating something as being the special share or responsibility of a particular person, department, etc., or as having a particular purpose; apportionment, allotment. Also: distribution or disposition of something among several recipients, parties, etc., in this way; the way in which this has been done in a particular instance. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting signmentc1425 lotting1449 assignmenta1464 repartition1555 enterpartening1556 allotment?1571 assigning1580 stalment1581 assignation1600 applotment1633 applotting1642 allocation1721 cavelling1805 committal1832 society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment besight1258 ordainmenta1325 constitution1393 assignationa1400 signmentc1425 appointmentc1440 steveningc1440 pointingc1449 ordinationc1450 instituting1534 prescription1542 prescribement1563 assignment1597 nomination1597 designation1609 consignation1650 reassignment1650 reassignation1655 consignmenta1668 appunctuation1768 destination1868 allocation1876 1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. ii. xiii. 494 To Morrow the Allocation [for quartering troops] was made, and the Fourteen hundred came to Nine hundred, of which I had Twenty for my Share. 1759 J. Whitaker Let. 3 Sept. in J. Nichols Coll. Hist. Berks (1783) 84 The only public charity or benefaction within this parish is an allocation of a house, a garden, and 4½ acres of land, to the special purposes of beautifying the church. 1794 G. Rennie & R. Brown Appeal Public 3 Great complaints have been made against the administration of the road work in this county, which has of late induced a number of respectable proprietors to pay more attention than formerly to the parochial accounts of its allocation and expenditure. 1813 W. Leslie Gen. View Agric. Nairn & Moray (new ed.) viii. 233 A commodious well sheltered enclosure could be formed..by an allocation to each [owner], of a section of the glen. c1854 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 133 The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. 1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lxiii. 55 Domitian..had respected this allocation of the imperial treasures. 1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 456 The whole subtle question of the allocation of powers under the Constitution. 1916 Times 28 Nov. 9/1 The Kriegsamt..is responsible for the provision of raw materials, arms, munitions, and drafts, with the allocation of labour to works, and with the feeding of workers. 1946 A. Monkman in H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding vii. 81/1 All he [sc. the layout man] requires for his work is the general plan, indicating type sizes and faces and allocations of white space. 1968 E. C. Smith & A. J. Zurcher Dict. Amer. Politics 230 The Senate majority leader controls the allocation of time and the priority of measures. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 May 20/4 In spite of excessive allocation of whole walls to explanatory texts and photographs, the visitor is left bemused. b. That which is allocated to a particular person, purpose, etc.; a portion, a share; a quota. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > according to amount available allocation1839 1839 N. Ogle Colony Western Austral. 174 Every colonist was obliged to select his allocation within a certain distance of a place of worship. 1863 Farmer's Mag. July 76/1 The department of the Côte d'Or recently devoted a small allocation to the organization of an exhibition confined wholly to horse stock. 1929 A. Shadwell Typhoeus iv. 90 22.7 per cent. had received an allocation of land and 40.6 per cent. had received compensation in money. 1940 Times 6 Feb. 5/3 Allocations will be based on the actual sales made by the butchers. 1947 J. Hayward Prose Lit. since 1939 19 Commercial publishers..had some cause to resent the intrusion of a rival with an unlimited allocation of paper. 1985 M. Stott Before I Go viii. 175 Each day of the week had..its allocation of jobs. 2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. vii. 93 Monks in the Middle Ages..had an allocation of around ten pints of ‘small beer’..every day. †4. Placement; location. Cf. allocate v. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] layingc1330 pitchinga1398 settinga1398 couchingc1400 stowingc1440 placingc1449 stelling1560 disposition1563 location1568 planting1585 situation1589 collocation1605 situating1611 disposurea1625 depositure1635 allodgement1639 instalment1646 fixation1652 deposition1659 lodgement1713 repositing1713 emplacement1742 bestowal1773 locating1774 disposal1828 placement1844 allocation1846 enlodgement1884 siting1902 1846 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Vertebr. Animals 5 The allocation of the mysterious albuminous electric pulp in a special cylindrical cavity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1447
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