allocates

verb

present tense third-person singular of allocate
1
as in allots
to give as a share or portion not enough computers to allocate one to every student

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2
as in distributes
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals allocated the housework in such a way that the older kids got more than the younger ones

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3
as in dedicates
to keep or intend for a special purpose sliced the strawberries after first allocating all the nicest ones for the top of the cake

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Recent Examples of allocates The 10 Percent Profit Pledge initiative allocates a portion of Rituals’ net profits to supporting the well-being of people and the planet. — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 In a report on the outage published on Friday, NATS said a software defect in the National Airspace System, which allocates codes so air traffic controllers can identify flights on radar, was behind the decision to ax the flights. — Pan Pylas, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 In the absence of a system for shifting the funding to other grants, though, this runs the risk of leaving the NIH unable to spend all the money Congress allocates to it (which may well be Vought’s intention). — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026 Understand how your organization makes money, serves customers, competes, allocates capital and measures performance. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026 But Abdalla’s growing profile has allegedly coincided with internal tensions over how the firm allocates its attention and resources. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026 Established in 2001 in a bid to make pension costs for New Zealand's aging population more affordable, New Zealand's wealth fund also allocates capital to timber, real estate and private markets, alongside other alternatives. — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026 The bond allocates $20 million for the project, which, along with naming rights, only covers the first $35 million. — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2026 North Carolina allocates $5,309 in supplemental funding for each student with an individualized education plan, or IEP, which is required for all students with special needs. — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for allocates
  1. allots
  2. distributes
  3. dedicates
  4. assigns
  5. dispenses
  6. devotes
  7. provides
  8. divides
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  • Hinson said the bill’s reductions to Medicaid spending for Iowa will be offset by the Rural Health Transformation Program, which allots $50 billion divided among all 50 states over the next five years.
    — Gabrielle M. Etzel, The Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2026
  • When a team allots minutes to so many young players simultaneously, lapses in concentration and on-court mistakes are bound to happen.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Definition of allots
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  • The government has supported the initiative alongside the International Chess Federation, known as FIDE, Chess Kenya and The Gift of Chess, a nonprofit organization that distributes chess sets.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Over the course of a week, the Zadie Project distributes about 1,000 quarts of soup to schools and community organizations across metro Atlanta.
    — Brian Unger, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of distributes
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  • Proposition 28 dedicates an amount equal to roughly 1% of California’s base education funding — nearly $1 billion a year — to arts programs.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Quan, 56, dedicates a chapter to attending that year’s awards ceremony (the SAG Awards have since been renamed the Actor Awards) with the cast of his 2022 hit Everything Everywhere All at Once in his new memoir Never Say Die.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of dedicates
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  • Notably, in the new documents, NASA assigns an explicit price to crew and cargo missions.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2026
  • To help textile mills assess the impact of their headers, Fabscrap also developed a Smart Swatch Scorecard, which assigns header designs a grade, based on the number of components and the relative ease of disassembling them.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of assigns
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  • The product comes with a double pump that dispenses two crepiness-tackling solutions.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Every day, Hy-Vee pharmacy manager Erin Jensen dispenses prescriptions for GLP-1 drugs, the weight-loss medications that have more than tripled in popularity in the last two years in the United States.
    — Israel Schuman, Des Moines Register, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of dispenses
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  • As a historian of the European theatre, Hitchcock devotes only a single chapter to Japan’s imperial expansion in Asia during the thirties.
    — Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Amenities and experiences Harmon Guest House smartly devotes most of its real estate to guest rooms, allowing for maximum comfort in a busy area.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of devotes
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  • There’s the menagerie of found object ephemera that provides a sense of intimacy and personality (look for the wild bit of art hanging in the spa entrance).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Evenson said the Missouri Department of Transportation had no issue with the bike race using the bridge, as long as the contractor provides permission.
    — Glory Reitz, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of provides
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  • Education level divides Americans as well — just 47 percent of Americans without four-year degrees reported believing that science benefits most people, compared to 71 percent of college grads.
    — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Each cell type is characterized by particular gene-expression settings, which are inherited when a cell divides.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of divides

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“Allocates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allocates. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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