allocate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with allocate, each labelled with its topic.

• The trustees allocate two thirds of the endowment to bonds, leaving the rest for property and a small cash reserve.

  Finance

• The council must allocate the repair money across eleven districts, and every member arrives arguing for their own streets.

  Politics

• The scheduler will allocate four processor cores to the render job and keep the remaining two free for the interface.

  Technology

• The founders allocate half of every new funding round to hiring engineers and refuse to touch that share for marketing.

  Startups

• The coach allocates the rookie fifteen minutes a night, mostly against second units, until he earns more.

  Basketball

• Markets allocate scarce steel to whoever pays the most, which is efficient but leaves small builders waiting for months.

  Economics

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

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• retention
• refine
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• duration
• discern
• induction