The committee decided to allocate a larger portion of the budget to public library renovations rather than to administrative costs.
委员会决定将预算的更大一部分分配给公共图书馆翻修，而不是行政开支。
Community gardens in the United States produce, collectively, an estimated value of fresh produce that rivals the annual budgets of several small municipal parks departments, a statistic often cited by advocates pushing city councils to allocate more unused land for gardening plots.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
Data scientist Hanna Voss argues that predictive policing algorithms allow police departments to allocate patrol resources more efficiently by identifying areas with statistically higher crime likelihood.
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Which choice best defines “allocate”?
C — Distribute. “allocate” means distribute.
Which word means “distribute”?
A — allocate. “allocate” means distribute.
allocate — distribute. In Chinese: 分配，拨给.
allocate is pronounced /ˈæləkeɪt/.
The committee decided to allocate a larger portion of the budget to public library renovations rather than to administrative costs. (委员会决定将预算的更大一部分分配给公共图书馆翻修，而不是行政开支。)
assign, apportion, distribute — all close in meaning to allocate (distribute).
withhold, retain — each the opposite of allocate (distribute).
Yes. allocate is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
al(TO)+locate(POSITION)