To set aside for a purpose.
Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow.
To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
The bulk of K–12 education funds are allocated to school districts that in turn pay for the cost of operating schools.
To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
The memory manager allocates memory to requesting processes until there is no more memory available or until there are no more processes waiting for memory.
allocated
A writ authorizing payment, allowance, grant.
From Latin allocātus, perfect passive participle of Latin allocō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + locō. Doublet of allow.
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