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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91. For example, below-ground resource allocation is driven by nitrogen or water availability in many forest ecosystem models.
92. The next step was to devise a budget allocation procedure that reflected the health needs of different areas.
93. In the second stage, choose the expenditure allocation so as to maximize overall welfare subject to the overall budget constraint.
94. Yet this change did not require much expenditure or creative thought allocation as a concept could have been deployed, rather than selection.
95. Their suspicions were fuelled when the ward allocation book, which denotes which nurse is allocated to which patient, disappeared.
96. The columns on the right of the form show the total allocation to each project for the period and to date.
97. Obviously this last option permits the human indexer some control over the allocation of index terms.
98. Hence, head office attracts the power brokers skilled in the politics of resource allocation.
99. The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process.
100. The stock allocation to an individual account is based upon a percentage of pay or some other formula established in advance.
101. We have now discovered that a competitive equilibrium in all markets would generate one particular Pareto-efficient allocation.
102. But government intervention is not the only way to cope with the problem of socially inefficient resource allocation due to externalities.
103. To unblock the well or drill a new one would require a new allocation of foreign aid.
104. Like most other nurses at that time, Bob was used to task allocation.
105. The t treatments are applied within each block by random allocation to the experimental units.
106. Property rights thus have a distributional implication - who compensates whom - but also act to achieve the socially efficient allocation.
107. One result of devolving off-duty allocation to ward level may be arrangements which take too much account of staff interests.
108. The same pattern of trade emerges for all allocation points within the factor price equalization set.
109. As such it can be seen that this is not a zero-based allocation system or a total formula-based system.
110. The competitive market is advocated because it is held to promote efficiency in resource allocation and the liberty of the individual citizen.
111. Tutorials Tutorials should be arranged during a ward allocation so that the learner covers specific subjects relevant to her clinical experience.
112. Allocations of large blocks to individual users should be kept to a minimum because of the inflexibility of the allocation process.
112. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
113. The arguments for and against task allocation are therefore quite mixed.
114. The system manager should be able to set limits on disk space allocation and printer usage for each user of the system.
115. Three million pages of information were printed and there was no budget allocation for using outside printers.
116. However, the choice significantly affects the final geographical distribution and their use in resource allocation has been questioned.
117. More economic patterns of resource allocation will result as underlying comparative advantages are allowed to exert their full potential.
118. Of the total £68.1 million allocation for community care grants, £67.4 million was spent.
119. It is essential that the impact of resource allocation formula is justifiable on grounds other than the composition of any particular formula.
120. During that time the allocation to that gallery has been reduced, and subsequently frozen.
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.