Plural of allocation; specific amounts of resources, funds, space, or responsibility assigned or distributed to particular purposes, departments, or people.
From Latin 'allocare' (to assign to a place) plus the suffix '-tion' creating a noun, then pluralized with '-s.' The term became central in economics and management vocabulary.
Military spending allocations, education allocations, healthcare allocations—how countries divide their budgets reveals their actual priorities way better than their spoken values!
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