Allocate means to assign an item of cost, or a group of items of cost, to one or more cost objectives. This includes both direct assignment of cost and the reassignment of a share from an indirect cost pool.

To assign space on the shelf for products. Based on product movement and other measures

To reserve some physical resource (item) such as memory, disk file space, or other unit to a specific computer task.

To assign resources for a specific task. This is often used to refer to memory use, disk space, bandwidth, or process cycles.

To designate the space or area for (a file, dataset, or member).

to assign storage locations to a program; to assign a specific amount of computer resources to an organization or individual

(1.) To assign a resource, such as a disk file or a diskette file, to perform a specific task. Contrast with deallocate. (2.) A request to allocate a session between the local LU and a remote LU. (3.) In NCS, to create a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) handle that identifies an object.

A process that determines how much shelf space a product gets, using product movement and profitability as a guide.

vb. To reserve a resource, such as sufficient memory, for use by a program. Compare deallocate.

To grant a resource, such as memory, to a requesting program.

To reserve the required amounts of a resource, such as memory.

To make resources available to the target machine.

To set up a memory location to hold variable values.

To assign costs to a product, department, customer, etc. on an arbitrary basis. For example, the heating cost might be allocated to the five departments located in the area that is heated. The allocation is often based on each department's square footage. To Top