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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61. Priority was given to the Health and Education ministries and a new budgetary allocation was created for road infrastructure.
62. Students often complain that nothing has been learned from a particular allocation.
63. Assessing standards and comparing outcomes are important in medical practice and allow comparison of different units and appropriate allocation of resources.
64. We will eliminate racial discrimination in housing allocation and improve safety on estates.
65. The report of the Resource Allocation Working Party in 1976 is the latest and boldest attempt so far.
66. The survey indicates that best-seller lists are far less important to consumers than the allocation of media coverage to best-sellers would suggest.
67. Although they will not qualify for discounts or bonus shares, they will get a larger allocation.
68. Decisions about the allocation of space, funds, and resources are often not the editor's responsibilities.
69. But Liverpool were congratulated for their efforts to minimise touting from their 26,000 allocation.
70. They are afraid that if anyone finds out about the leftovers, Congress will shave back their allocation for the next year.
71. The budgetary process focuses more clearly on the resource allocation process with more thorough scrutiny of existing commitments.
72. Proposals for resource allocation according to quality of teaching as well as research endeavour are undoubtedly overdue.
73. With an improved public expenditure allocation for April 1992, the future is looking considerably better.
74. Unfortunately, all this means nothing under the current system of ticket allocation.
75. But by failing to register in time you will have lost the chance of being given preference in allocation.
76. How, then, do we make the economy grow and devise an equitable allocation of its fruits?
77. Diglossia refers to the community norms for language allocation across domains.
78. So some of the benefits of geographic asset allocation are lost.
79. It would appear that edited departmental lists only accounted for £800 or so of the total allocation.
80. The Ministry was to spend considerably more than its total allocation for the period 1964-69.
81. But what ethical principles should guide the allocation of resources?
82. The biggest allocation for a district council in the region goes to Darlington which receives £700,[www.Sentencedict.com]000.
83. The final perspective upon resource allocation is by age group.
84. The workbook given to each student at the start of the allocation will provide further guidelines for learning.
85. The allocation of the rate support grant took account of both variations in need and variations in resources among local authorities.
86. A third way of considering expenditure distribution is via the allocation given to specific patient or client groups.
87. At the commencement of training, each trainee should be provided with a training plan which includes details of holiday allocation.
88. The budget allocation process is designed to support existing businesses.
89. So marginal changes in time allocation to sport may be difficult.
90. These will be stated in general terms for the whole allocation.
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.