allocate

Etymology

From Medieval Latin allocāte, imperative of Latin allocāre, from ad- (“to”) + locus (“place”).

verb

1. To set aside for a purpose.
   Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow.
2. To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
   The bulk of K–12 education funds are allocated to school districts that in turn pay for the cost of operating schools.
3. (computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
   The memory manager allocates memory to requesting processes until there is no more memory available or until there are no more processes waiting for memory. 2011, José M. Garrido, Richard Schlesinger, Kenneth Hoganson, Principles of Modern Operating Systems, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, page 264