REALLOCATING Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

reallocating

verb

present participle of reallocate

as in allocating

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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Most companies already have established processes for deciding where to expand, allocating capital and evaluating new markets, and reworking those processes requires more than adding another tool.

— Jeremy Barnett, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Higher yields tend to pose competition for stocks has investors may prefer allocating to relatively risk-free and higher yielding bonds rather than risk-on stocks.

— Paulina Likos, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of allocating

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Inevitably, team evil has cooler powers, like Sindel’s scream and Kung Lao’s hat of doom, but in addition to allotting an inordinate amount of its combat time to Shao Kahn, who’s just a hulking guy with a hammer, the movie’s big visual idea is characters blasting one another with beams.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 May 2026
The framework proposes allotting $20 million of it to the Rays.

— Nicolas Villamil, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026

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Musk's showpiece rocket -- the biggest and most powerful ever built -- carried 26 of the latest Starlinks to join the 11,000 older models already providing internet service.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
My leadership is much more about providing a very clear direction and making sure that there’s a high degree of autonomy for people to feel empowered and enabled to do so.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

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Deablo wears the green dot for the Falcons’ defense, giving him the responsibility of distributing play calls to his teammates.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 3 Oct. 2026
The rollout included distributing the new shoe across 5,000 doors, twice the average for a Nike basketball signature shoe, Hill explained.

— Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of distributing

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Yet, even presuming that the government could beat back Native powers, intelligently dividing that unseen area into plots would require understanding its geography, soil, and waterways.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
But for now the war rages on, dividing some communities in Ukraine through Russian propaganda videos.

— Yasmin Vossoughian, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2026

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