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Despense vs Allocate - What's the difference?

despense | allocate |

As a verb allocate is

to set aside for a purpose.

despense

Not English

Despense has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

allocate

English

Verb

(allocat)
  • To set aside for a purpose
  • 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.
  • (computing) To declare a section of the memory to be used by the program.
  • Antonyms

    * (declare a section of memory) free, deallocate