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allocate
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Mao’s Last Dancer
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The commune allocated each family in the village a piece of land.†
Chpt 1.1 *

allocated = set apart for a special purpose
Every family was allocated a very small quantity of these items each month, but often they were not available at all.†
Chpt 1.1
The small amount of black coal that was allocated to us we would try to keep for winter heating.†
Chpt 1.2
Of course, we often had to help our dia too, working the small piece of land that the commune allocated to us.†
Chpt 1.4
We were allowed a few moments to put our personal belongings away, so I put my snakeskin and the smelly dried shrimp and my other items in a little bedside chest of drawers next to the bed I was allocated.†
Chpt 2.8
After the meal, while Mary was playing with my brother's three girls, I asked Cunyuan to show me the farmland he had been allocated by the commune.†
Chpt 3.29

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