allocation

noun

Definition of allocationnext
1
as in subsidy
a sum of money allotted for a specific use by official or formal action recognizing the importance of the arts in the health of a city, the council increased the allocation for the city's annual jazz festival

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2
as in distribution
the act or process of giving out something to each member of a group the allocation of Halloween candy became my job when I was too old to go trick-or-treating myself

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allocation
  1. subsidy
  2. distribution
  3. grant
  4. allotment
  5. appropriation
Noun
  • But no other disabled retirees have been able to stay on the city’s insurance after losing the subsidy, her lawyers told the court.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Trump has also erroneously cast the U.S. trade deficit with Canada — a natural resource-rich nation that provides the U.S. with commodities like oil — as a subsidy.
    Jim Morris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of subsidy
Noun
  • Paramount, working with some co-financiers, acquired the feature for North America distribution (and Japan and France) for $25 million.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The victim might not notice that the email was addressed to a user who had registered a free Microsoft 365 test domain to create the distribution list that contained the target emails.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of distribution
Noun
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In 2024, the Village Board allocated $450,000 in business improvement grants of up to $100,000 per business, Glenview spokesman David Just said.
    Phil Rockrohr, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of grant
Noun
  • While average payments for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits are not available, the maximum allotment will increase from $943 a month to $967.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The city instead gets most of its water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which draws water from the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the Metropolitan Water District, which receives a large allotment from the Colorado River and Delta.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of allotment
Noun
  • Yee-Wallace questioned whether the remaining damages — the punitive damages — would come from a state Department of Administration fund or Boise State’s general appropriations.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Anderson gave us the Puzzle bag, the Gate bag, and a celebrated high-fashion appropriation of the humble market tote.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of appropriation
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