Allocation vs Assigned - What's the difference?
allocation | assigned |
The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
(assign)
(lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
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(lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.
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(lb) To allot or give something as a task.
*(Robert Southey) (1774-1843)
*:The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .
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*:He assigned to his men their several posts.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
(lb) To attribute or sort something into categories.
To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
To give (a value) to a variable.
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An assignee.
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
* Shakespeare
As a noun allocation
is the process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.As a verb assigned is
(assign).allocation
English
Noun
(en noun)- The allocation of new permits is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Derived terms
* allocationalAnagrams
* ----assigned
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* assigned servantassign
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Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.