allocation

English

Etymology

From Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiō. By surface analysis, allocate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌæl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌæl.əˈkæɪ.ʃən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɛl.əˈkæɪ.ʃən/

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.

• Arabic: تَخْصِيص (taḵṣīṣ)
• 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, adjudicación (es) f
• Swedish: anslag (sv), fördelning (sv), tilldelning (sv)
• Tagalog: at-at
• Turkish: tahsis (tr)

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.