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To assign resources a destiny, ideally before someone else assigns them yours.
means To set aside or distribute something — money, memory, time, blame — for a specific purpose or recipient.
from From Latin allocare, to set in place, fusing ad- (to) with locare (to put). The same locus that gives us location and locale — allocation is simply giving things a where.
Money's verbBudgets exist purely to be allocated and argued over.
ComputingPrograms allocate memory, then leak it embarrassingly.
SiblingReallocate quietly admits the first plan failed.