allocated

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past simple and past participle of

to give something to someone as their share of a total amount, to use in a particular way:

The government is allocating £10 million for health education.

[ + two objects ] As project leader, you will have to allocate people jobs/allocate jobs to people.

It is not the job of the investigating committee to allocate blame for the disaster/to allocate blame to individuals.