allocating
Dividing among recipients
Allocating is the present participle of allocate, which means to set aside or distribute resources for a particular purpose.
When you allocate funds, time, or personnel, you designate them for specific uses: The committee is allocating more money to infrastructure this year.
The word appears frequently in business, government, and computing contexts, where resources must be parceled out systematically among competing needs.
Available financial resources
- resourcesAvailable assets or supplies
- capitalWealth used for investment
- expenditureMoney paid out
- financesMonetary affairs
revenue · costs · savings · investment · fiscal · cashflow · appropriations · earmarking
Transferring authority to another
- appointingSelecting for a position
- designatingFormally identifying or assigning
- entrustingGiving for safekeeping
- taskingAllocating work to someone
commissioning · nominating · selecting · authorizing · empowering · mandating · consigning · charging
Dividing into shares
- allottingDistributing in shares
- parcelingDividing into shares
- dispersingSpreading widely apart
- divvyingDistributing into portions
rationing · meting · partitioning · disbursing · doling · dispensing · proportioning · slicing
Ordering by importance
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
- strategizingFormulating tactical approaches
- coordinatingArranging for unified action
organizing · triaging · sequencing · phasing · roadmapping · optimizing · balancing · managing
funds
Available financial resources
- resourcesAvailable assets or supplies
- capitalWealth used for investment
- expenditureMoney paid out
finances · revenue · costs · savings · investment · fiscal · cashflow · appropriations · earmarking · reserves
delegating
Transferring authority to another
- appointingSelecting for a position
- designatingFormally identifying or assigning
- entrustingGiving for safekeeping
tasking · commissioning · nominating · selecting · authorizing · empowering · mandating · consigning · charging · vesting
apportioning
Dividing into shares
- allottingDistributing in shares
- parcelingDividing into shares
- dispersingSpreading widely apart
divvying · rationing · meting · partitioning · disbursing · doling · dispensing · proportioning · slicing · splitting
prioritizing
Ordering by importance
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
- strategizingFormulating tactical approaches
coordinating · organizing · triaging · sequencing · phasing · roadmapping · optimizing · balancing · managing · targeting
- delegationdelegating, assigning, entrusting, tasking, handing off
- logisticsshipping, delivery, warehouses, warehousing, shipment
- organizingorganizing, categorizing, grouping, structuring, classifying
- business activitiesmeetings, meeting, hiring, firing, training
- distributingdistributing, dispensing, apportioning, doling out, handing out
- assigningassigning, appointing, attributing, crediting, delegating
allocatinghoarding
Excessive accumulation of goods
withholding · stockpiling · accumulating · amassing · retaining
allocatingscattering
Distribution in many directions
squandering · wasting · misallocating · dissipating · frittering away
allocatingseizing
Taking forcible possession
confiscating · reclaiming · appropriating · taking · requisitioning
- asset allocationDistributing investments strategically
- budget allocationPlanned distribution of funds
- time allocationDistributing hours among tasks
- resource allocationAssigning available means strategically
- funding allocationDistribution of financial resources
- healthcare allocationDistribution of medical resources