allocates
- 1Third-person singular present of allocate.
The committee allocates funding to the projects with the strongest proposals.
Each year the agency allocates resources according to regional need.
Note
The -s form appears whenever the subject is a single third party: she allocates, the council allocates, the program allocates. In the distribution meaning it usually takes to before the receiver, as in allocates seats to delegates, while in computing a program simply allocates memory. Historically the same spelling could also name more than one allocate, an obsolete writ authorizing payment.
allocates 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 → allocates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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