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Allocation   Listen
noun
Allocation  n.  
1.
The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
2.
An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. "The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants."
3.
The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; a term used in the English exchequer.





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"Allocation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) continues to mediate dispute; Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia ratify Caspian seabed delimitation treaties based on equidistance, while Iran continues to insist on an even one-fifth allocation and challenges Azerbaijan's hydrocarbon exploration in disputed waters; ICJ decision expected to resolve dispute with Turkmenistan over sovereignty of certain ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... peach-like project, they keep it rigidly for their own swarm, and repel the approach of interlopers. Notwithstanding all our efforts, and very ingenious ones they were, we never, in a single instance, succeeded in procuring an allocation of original shares; and though we did now and then make a bit by purchase, we more frequently bought at a premium, and parted with our scrip at a discount. At the end of six months we were not twenty pounds richer ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various
... is the circle drawn about it, and consists of an outer ring, the twelve secular tribes, a middle ring, the Levites, and an innermost one, the sons of Aaron: a mathematical demonstration of the theocracy in the wilderness. The two first chapters contain the census of the twelve tribes, and their allocation in four quarters, nothing but names and numbers. To this first census chapter xxxiv. adds another at the close of the forty years, in which the various detailed figures are different, but the total is about the same. This total, 600,000 warriors, comes from the ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen


Words linked to "Allocation" :   allocate, distribution, grant, apportionment, subsidization, assignation, portion, subsidisation, assignment, apportioning, reapportionment, deal, share, parceling, allotment, parcelling, percentage, rationing, part


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