All 4 Uses
allocate
in
The Trial, by Fran Kafka
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- The room they've been allocated, with its narrow space and low ceiling, will be enough to show what contempt the court has for these people.†
Chpt 7 *allocated = set apart for a special purpose
- On the other hand, it's also true that the gentlemen don't become involved with the defence — which will of course be done with great expertise — just for philanthropic reasons or in order to be friendly, in some respects it would be truer to say that they, too, have it allocated to them.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7allocates = distributes or sets apart for a special purpose
- After exchanging a few courtesies about who was to carry out the next tasks — the gentlemen did not seem to have been allocated specific functions — one of them went to K. and took his coat, his waistcoat, and finally his shirt off him.†
Chpt 10allocated = 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)