as in to allocate
to move or direct (something) so that it can be used for a different purpose
After the class trip was canceled, the money was reallocated to cover the cost of the dance. We need to reallocate our resources.
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Recent Examples of reallocate
Your job duties don’t need to be specifically replaced by AI for such cuts to affect you, because businesses are pulling money out of existing initiatives and reallocating it toward AI.
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Catherine Baab, Quartz, 27 May 2025
The change would reallocate the Forest Service’s firefighting budget to the new agency and fundamentally reorient its mission to one of extraction and recreation.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
In uncertain times, don’t hoard cash—reallocate it.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
In each round of redistribution, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and those votes are reallocated again.
—Annabella Rosciglione, The Washington Examiner, 17 June 2025
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Catherine Baab, Quartz, 27 May 2025
The change would reallocate the Forest Service’s firefighting budget to the new agency and fundamentally reorient its mission to one of extraction and recreation.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
In uncertain times, don’t hoard cash—reallocate it.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
In each round of redistribution, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and those votes are reallocated again.
—Annabella Rosciglione, The Washington Examiner, 17 June 2025
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For border security and immigration enforcement, the package allocates $350 billion, including $46 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border wall and $45 billion for 100,000 migrant detention facility beds.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 June 2025
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Billions for border security Both the Senate and the House bills allocate $46.5 billion toward completing Trump's border wall.—
Elena Moore,
NPR,
28 June 2025
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Radar provides real-time reads on inventory continuously, and the kind of data that otherwise would only attained online through e-commerce.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
1 July 2025
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As of this writing, NASA has not provided any details on when and where the reports will be available again or if the new assessment will proceed.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
1 July 2025
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It will be distributed inside Gate A, the Royals said.—
Pete Grathoff
July 8,
Kansas City Star,
8 July 2025
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The uncertain state of Tehran highlights the trickiness of distributing a TV show ripped from geopolitical headlines — particularly when that distributor has a much larger business around the world than just airing television shows.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
8 July 2025
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Even more unconventional is the way these portals are arrayed and allotted.—
Brett Berk,
Robb Report,
8 July 2025
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First Qatar, then Senegal, Togo, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, China, Lebanon and the U.K. spoke for three minutes each, the time allotted to member states.—
Isabelle Mayault,
The Dial,
8 July 2025
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“Reallocate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reallocate. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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