allocated

Set aside officially

Allocated is the past tense of allocate, meaning to set aside or distribute for a particular purpose.

Resources, funds, or time are allocated to specific uses: The committee allocated funds for the new library.

The word implies deliberate assignment rather than random distribution.

Each department was allocated a share of the budget.

assigned

delegated

Assigned to a subordinate

entrusted · tasked · commissioned · charged · responsibility · authorized · mandated · deputed · consigned · distributed

distributed

partitioned

Divided into distinct sections

dispersed · parceled · rationed · apportioned · portioned · split · subdivided · dealt · doled · meted

budgeted

budget

Plan for spending

expenditure · appropriation · earmarked · reserved · funding · capital · finances · grant · subsidy · disbursement

quota

allotment

Designated share or portion

ration · entitlement · quota · percentage · slice · fraction · proportion · limit · cap · ceiling

computing

memory

Mind's retention capacity

  • storageSpace for keeping goods
  • heapJumbled collection of items
  • bufferProtective intermediate space

cache · RAM · stack · partition · bandwidth · CPU · processing · threads · registers · swap

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distribution status

allocatedunallocated

Not yet given out

unassigned · uncommitted · undistributed · unappropriated · free

resource action

allocatedwithheld

Kept from giving

retained · hoarded · refused · held · reclaimed

Phrases
Family

allocate, allocation, allocations, allocating, allocates, allocator, allocators, allocatable

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