allocation

English

Etymology

From Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiō.

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.

Hyponyms

• memory allocation

Derived terms

• allocational

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
• Interlingue:
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bevilgning m or f (money)

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• 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
• Spanish: asignación (es) f, distribución (es) f, reparto (es) m
• Swedish: anslag (sv), fördelning (sv), tilldelning
• Tagalog: at-at
• Turkish: tahsis etme

Anagrams

• locational

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French

Etymology

From Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

allocation f (plural allocations)

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

Further reading

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