Synonym: allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling, storage allocation. Similar words: location, relocation, vocation, allocate, avocation, revocation, invocation, provocation. Meaning: [‚æləʊ'keɪʃn] n. 1. a share set aside for a specific purpose 2. the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan 3. (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions.
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31. The allocation policy is apparently the result of production difficulties.
32. Economic forces ensure that the same efficient allocation will happen in either case.
33. One such functional prerequisite is effective role allocation and performance.
34. That will encourage existing farmers to increase their production per hectare from their smaller land allocation.
35. On 6 December, I announced a further £7.5 million capital allocation for projects for 1992-93.
36. Alternatively, departments have an allocation, while the library retains a generous contingency fund.
37. Of course, family allowances, tax benefits and preferential housing allocation are all designed to ease the cost of dependent children.
38. Ward objectives will give her guidance in making the most of each allocation.
39. I really don't think I could support a bid for a supplementary allocation.
40. Such decisions may have substantial implications for individual and social welfare and the allocation of scarce resources.
41. There were of course anomalies, but some would have occurred whatever mechanisms for resource allocation had been adopted.
42. Access to housing Most housing departments failed to integrate disabled people into their allocation policies.
43. Such specialization, we saw in Chapter 3, means a more efficient allocation of resources.
44. We have considered the possibility that task allocation really serves the organisation, which is therefore the real client.
45. 50% of the fund will be available for allocation this year.
46. The basic economic argument for the market system-that it tends to provide an efficient allocation of resources-Is not easily undermined.
47. The Assembly was expanded from 195 to 250 seats, allowing for a larger allocation of seats to independent candidates.
48. It was alleged that population growth since that time had resulted in serious inequities in the allocation of legislative representatives.
49. Mr. Scott Each annual allocation of funds to district budgets has been designed to redistribute resources in a progressively more equitable way.
50. Minimum estimate of X based on maximum allocation to injuries $ 69, 000 2.
51. Instead, the Housing Minister announced a £100 million allocation specifically for the target areas.
52. Resource allocation is also relevant[sentencedict.com/allocation.html], particularly where charging policies are formulated on a means-tested basis.
53. We sometimes call this the first-best allocation to remind ourselves that it is fully efficient.
54. The principle is a principle for the allocation of competence within a hierarchy.
55. The allocation of labour to activities can be plotted as a histogram which will invariably show peaks and troughs.
56. Middlesbrough have sold their full 4,000 allocation and Wolves expect a 20,000 crowd.
57. Not knowing the number of items will result in wasted space due to over allocation.
58. The presumption is that resource allocation will be improved upon by this type of government activity.
59. The manager should discuss the proposals for the coming year's maintenance programme before the allocation of annual leave to nurses.
60. To begin with, Catholics objected to religious discrimination reflected in the unfair allocation of jobs, housing and industrial investment.
More similar words: location, relocation, vocation, allocate, avocation, revocation, invocation, provocation, equivocation, ratification, gratification, locate, stratification, located, self-gratification, relocate, dislocate, social stratification, vacation, education, inculcation, abdication, medication, educational, coeducation, indication, dedication, fornication, altercation, vindication.