{
    "term": "allocate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "allocate",
            "heSheIt": "allocates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "allocated",
        "pastParticiple": "allocated",
        "ingForm": "allocating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to give something officially to somebody/something for a particular purpose",
            "sensetop": "allocate something (for something)allocate something (to somebody/something)allocate somebody/something sthallocate something to do something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A large sum has been allocated for buying new books for the library.",
                    "contextForm": "allocate something (for something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They intend to allocate more places to mature students this year.",
                    "contextForm": "allocate something (to somebody/something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "More resources are being allocated to the project."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The project is being allocated more resources.",
                    "contextForm": "allocate somebody/something sth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Millions have been allocated to improve students' performance.",
                    "contextForm": "allocate something to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "More money should be allocated for famine relief."
                },
                {
                    "text": "More funds will now be allocated to charitable organizations."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["randomly", "efficiently"],
                "preposition": ["according to", "by", "for"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæləkeɪt/",
                "audio": "al/allocate/allocate__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæləkeɪts/",
                "audio": "al/allocate/allocates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæləkeɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "al/allocate/allocated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæləkeɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "al/allocate/allocating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæləkeɪt/",
                "audio": "al/allocate/allocate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæləkeɪts/",
                "audio": "al/allocate/allocates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæləkeɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "al/allocate/allocated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæləkeɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "al/allocate/allocating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin allocat- ‘allotted’, from the verb allocare, from ad- ‘to’ + locare, from locus ‘place’."
}