allocation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
allocation (countable and uncountable, plural allocations)
- 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.
- That which is allocated; allowance, entitlement.
- The farmer received his full allocation of water from the government.
- (embryology) Restriction of an embryonic cell and its clonal descendents to a particular cell type or body region
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Translations[edit]
The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
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References[edit]
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
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
allocation f (plural allocations)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “allocation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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