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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. 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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As a resource allocator, the leader must decide how to
portion out the resources available, either financial, material, and/or
human beings.
The model also includes susceptibility factors that may be allocators of
risk, such as age, sex, differences in metabolism and storage of PCBs,
and concurrent exposure to other toxicants. Bernstein, William, The Intelligent Asset Allocator, McGraw-Hill,
New York, 2001. |
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