allocations
- 1Plural of allocation.
The committee reviewed the regional funding allocations before signing off.
Annual water allocations to farmers were cut sharply during the drought.
Note
The plural reaches only the countable side of allocation. As a mass noun for the process itself (the allocation of resources took months), it has no plural. Allocations are the separate shares handed out, each an allowance or entitlement that can be counted, or distinct rounds of apportioning. Money and other resources are its everyday home, though embryologists can speak of separate cell allocations in the same countable way.
allocations is a form of allocation
allocation, noun: The process or procedure of dividing and assigning resources, especially money, among people or purposes. Full entry
- Forms
- allocationallocations plural
- Spelling
- allocation → allocations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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