Both Uses
allocate
in
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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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.†
*allocating = distributing or setting apart for a special purpose
- They'd intended to start with the walls they'd been allocated before dinner, but Tiurin called from below: "Hey, men!†
allocated = set apart for a special purpose
Definitions:
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(1)
(allocate) distribute according to a plan
or:
set apart for a special purpose - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)