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Allocate

Meaning in public administration, with examples

/ˈæləkeɪt/verbCore term

In public administration, allocate means: To officially decide that an amount of money, staff, time or other resources will be used for a particular purpose or given to a particular group.

In Turkish: tahsis etmek, ayırmak, dağıtmak

How it is used

Used in budgeting and planning: funds, resources and staff are allocated to projects, regions or departments. Usually passive in reports: 20 million was allocated to school repairs. The noun is allocation: budget allocation.

Example sentences

  1. The ministry allocated extra funds to provinces affected by the floods.

  2. How we allocate staff between offices depends on the number of applications.

Common collocations

  • allocate funds
  • allocate resources
  • budget allocation
  • allocated to
  • appropriationAn amount of public money that a parliament or council officially approves for a specific purpose, giving a public body the legal right to spend it.
  • budgetA plan showing how much money a government or public body expects to receive and how it will spend that money over a set period, usually one year.
  • grantAn amount of money given by a government or other body for a specific purpose, such as a project, research or local services, which normally does not have to be paid back.
  • public spendingMoney spent by the government and other public bodies on services, salaries, investment and benefits; formal texts often call it public expenditure.

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