Both Uses of
allocate
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- Learning that military supplies were being allocated for various kinds of reconstruction, he got requisition slips for "conversion materials" from the prefectural government and began a hunt for things he could use or sell.†
Chpt 5 *allocated = set apart for a special purpose
- Cousins had brought fifteen hundred dollars, but it turned out that two hundred dollars of this amount had been set aside for six particular children, sixty-five dollars had been allocated to the Maidens, and a hundred and nineteen dollars had been spent by Tanimoto at the Fukuya department store for briefcases to be presented as gifts by Norman Cousins to the directors of six orphanages.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
distribute according to a plan
or:
set apart for a special purpose
or:
set apart for a special purpose