allocating
- 1Present participle and gerund of allocate.
The committee is allocating funds to the schools that need them most.
Allocating resources fairly across departments takes careful planning.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. After be it carries an action in progress (the board is allocating funds). At the head of a clause it names the act itself, with its object still attached (allocating resources fairly takes planning). Either way it keeps the verb's usual partner, to, for the destination: allocating money to schools. Programmers use it more narrowly, for reserving memory, as in a routine allocating memory as it runs.
allocating 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
- Spelling
- allocate → allocating: drop the e, add -ing
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