allocated
- 1Simple past and past participle of allocate.
The committee allocated the remaining budget to flood relief.
Hospital beds were allocated according to the severity of each case.
Note
One spelling does double duty: the committee allocated the money (simple past), and the money was allocated or has been allocated (participle, after be or have). The verb usually names its recipient with to, as in allocated to flood relief or allocated to each team. Programmers use the same form for memory reserved for a program: memory allocated at startup. Placed before a noun, it settles into the adjective: allocated funds.
- 2Granted, received, or assigned as part of a plan, with a share set aside for a particular person or purpose.
The allocated funds covered only half of the project's costs.
Every researcher was given an allocated workspace in the new lab.
Similarassigned, designated
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allocated is a form of allocate
allocate, verb: To distribute something according to a plan, usually directing it to a particular person or purpose. Full entry
- Forms
- allocateallocates he/she/itallocating -ing formallocated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- allocate → allocated: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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