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The apportionment or designation of an item for a specific purpose or to a particular place. In the law of trusts, the allocation of cash dividends earned by a stock that makes up the principal of a trust for a beneficiary usually means that the dividends will be treated as income to be paid to the beneficiary. The allocation of stock dividends generally means that such dividends will be added to the shares of stock held as principal, thereby increasing its size. See also: allotment, appointment, apportionment, appropriation, arrangement, assignment, budget, circulation, classification, consignment, coupon, dispensation, distribution, division, interest, order, part, portion, quota, share ALLOCATION, Eng. law. An allowance upon account in the Exchequer; or rather, placing or adding to a thing. Ency. Lond. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The result is a series of
needs indicators that seek to capture the nature of both housing need
and allocative priority. Since this is the chief
finding of the humanities in the 20th century, I would bet that in the
21st century it will start revising our calculative, allocative,
easily-socialist view of the economy. The nonliberal economies of Japan and Germany are both less
concerned with short-term allocative efficiency and the elimination of
monopoly rents than the Anglo-American economies. |
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