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allocate
1. To spread systematically a single monetary amount over a number of time periods, usually years. For example, depreciation allocates the cost of a capital asset over its useful life.
2. To distribute cost or revenue throughout a number of operations or products. For example, a business must decide how to allocate the costs of running its headquarters over all its operations to determine the profitability of each of those operations.

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bishops unanimously decided to allocate $335,000 for a study of the "causes and contexts" of the sex abuse crisis on November 13, the first day of their annual meeting.
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Mark your 2006 calendars and allocate your budgets so you can be sure to join systems engineers from around the world at the Sixteenth Annual International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) International Symposium, July 9-13, 2006, in Orlando, Fla.
 
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