Sample Sentences for
allocate
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    The company has committed to allocating more money for research and development.
    allocating = setting apart (for a special purpose)
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    It's easy to allocate resources when everyone gets the same thing, but everything is more varied at the Dauntless compound.  (source)
    allocate = distribute according to a plan
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    I know you were all promised compensation for your participation in the Selection. ... However, there have been some new monetary allocations.  (source)
    allocations = distribution plans
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    We allocated one hundred grams for luxury items.  (source)
    allocated = set apart (for a special purpose)
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    But to get there, they would first have to figure out how to communicate with each other, how to organize themselves, how to allocate their resources, and which direction they should row.  (source)
    allocate = ration (use up according to a plan)
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    I sat on a mat on a low platform in the center of the first floor of the house and listened to an Orsian complain to me about the allocation of fishing rights  (source)
    allocation = rationing (distribution according to a plan)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    During eight years' imprisonment he had known various systems for allocating footwear: there'd been times when he'd gone through the winter without valenki at all, or leather boots either, and had had to make shift with rope sandals or a sort of galoshes made of scraps of motor tires—"Chetezes" they called them, after the Cheiabinsk tractor works.†  (source)
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    So they haven't been getting many allocations of materials.†  (source)
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    They're only allowed to deal with that part of the trial which the law allocates them, and they usually know less about the results of their work after it's left them than the defence does, even though the defence will usually stay in contact with the accused until the trial is nearly at its end, so that the court officials can learn many useful things from the defence.†  (source)
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    One might well draw the conclusion, that a man prone to pacing is a man who will act judiciously—given the unusual amount of time he has allocated to the consideration of causes and consequences, of ramifications and repercussions.  (source)
    allocated = set apart (for a special purpose)
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    Since being laid off, Murvelene has had freelance jobs, and she continues to allocate 10 percent of her income to charity.  (source)
    allocate = set apart for a special purpose
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    I looked over the budget of the Security Police and found nothing resembling an allocation for the Zalachenko club.  (source)
    allocation = funds set apart (for a special purpose)
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    Quite suddenly he reappeared at the Abteilung's headquarters in Leipzig as head of the Ways and Means Department, responsible for allocating currency, equipment and personnel for special tasks.†  (source)
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