noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
capital
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On 6 December, I announced a further £7.5 million capital allocation for projects for 1992-93.
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Great ingenuity was expended in creative accounting to get round overall spending limits or capital allocations .
efficient
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For the international economy it hopefully brings about a more efficient allocation of investment or financial resources.
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Property rights thus have a distributional implication - who compensates whom - but also act to achieve the socially efficient allocation .
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The basic economic argument for the market system-that it tends to provide an efficient allocation of resources-Is not easily undermined.
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I believe this to be most important if we are to have rational investment decisions and efficient allocations of resources.
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Such specialization, we saw in Chapter 3, means a more efficient allocation of resources.
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The market therefore does not produce a socially efficient allocation of resources.
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If the market does not achieve an efficient allocation of resources there is said to be market failure.
financial
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The recommendations of the Working Party have been used as the basis for financial allocations to the Health Service regions since 1977.
initial
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City officials during that time were doing technical work and making some initial decisions about allocations of funds.
large
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The largest allocations went, in order of size, to education, public works, defence, local government and health.
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The very presence of the mines necessitated a large allocation of precious manpower to keep the roads open.
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Transport and communications received the largest allocation , 23.8 percent of the proposed budget, followed by agriculture with 18.5 percent.
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The largest allocation went on defence, at 21.3 percent of recurrent spending.
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Although they will not qualify for discounts or bonus shares, they will get a larger allocation .
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The Assembly was expanded from 195 to 250 seats, allowing for a larger allocation of seats to independent candidates.
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The largest rises in allocations went to security and defence.
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He wants a larger allocation in any case.
random
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The t treatments are applied within each block by random allocation to the experimental units.
total
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The columns on the right of the form show the total allocation to each project for the period and to date.
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Of the total £68.1 million allocation for community care grants, £67.4 million was spent.
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The main point to make about the Programme Authorities was that their total allocations from the Urban Programme were very small.
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The Ministry was to spend considerably more than its total allocation for the period 1964-69.
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It would appear that edited departmental lists only accounted for £800 or so of the total allocation .
■ NOUN
asset
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So some of the benefits of geographic asset allocation are lost.
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No one is saying that asset allocation is bad.
budget
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The next step was to devise a budget allocation procedure that reflected the health needs of different areas.
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What political strategies and tactics are used to influence budget allocations ? 6.
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The budget allocation process is designed to support existing businesses.
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Three million pages of information were printed and there was no budget allocation for using outside printers.
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Higher spending practices were rewarded for their inefficiency and the more efficient penalised by lower budget allocations .
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Fees increase annually, therefore budget allocations have to accommodate this.
fund
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Hon. Members will be aware that the access fund allocations for the current academic year have already been made.
land
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That will encourage existing farmers to increase their production per hectare from their smaller land allocation .
policy
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The allocation policy is apparently the result of production difficulties.
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Access to housing Most housing departments failed to integrate disabled people into their allocation policies .
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An example of good practice in incorporating disabled people into an allocations policy was again provided by Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council.
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An insensitive allocation policy could only frustrate their efforts.
process
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The budget allocation process is designed to support existing businesses.
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The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process .
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In the face of competing claims on scarce resources, the allocation process can also become highly political.
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Allocations of large blocks to individual users should be kept to a minimum because of the inflexibility of the allocation process .
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The budgetary process focuses more clearly on the resource allocation process with more thorough scrutiny of existing commitments.
resource
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The management of resource allocation involves giving attention to all these matters and how they affect roles at different hierarchical levels.
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The presumption is that resource allocation will be improved upon by this type of government activity.
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Proposals for resource allocation according to quality of teaching as well as research endeavour are undoubtedly overdue.
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We stress the evils of idleness and bad resource allocation which were relevant to efforts to increase output a century ago.
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The final perspective upon resource allocation is by age group.
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There were of course anomalies, but some would have occurred whatever mechanisms for resource allocation had been adopted.
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Such a pattern of resource allocation is called a Pareto optimum.
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It is essential that the impact of resource allocation formula is justifiable on grounds other than the composition of any particular formula.
system
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As such it can be seen that this is not a zero-based allocation system or a total formula-based system.
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The first move has been in converting to a project-based resource allocation system rather than funding an overall area of activity.
task
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Like most other nurses at that time, Bob was used to task allocation .
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This was task allocation taken to its ultimate extreme.
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The arguments for and against task allocation are therefore quite mixed.
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Is there any task allocation at all - for example, do only one or two nurses give the insulin?
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We have considered the possibility that task allocation really serves the organisation, which is therefore the real client.
time
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So marginal changes in time allocation to sport may be difficult.
■ VERB
announce
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I shall be announcing the individual allocations for next year before Christmas.
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Instead, the Housing Minister announced a £100 million allocation specifically for the target areas.
based
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Minimum estimate of X based on maximum allocation to injuries $ 69, 000 2.
decide
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It would then be the responsibility of the institution itself to decide upon the detailed allocation of resources within the programme.
determine
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Instead, water distribution will be determined by the relative allocation of solute to the extracellular and intracellular spaces.
include
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At the commencement of training, each trainee should be provided with a training plan which includes details of holiday allocation .
increase
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We have rightly increased their allocations this year.
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There is some evidence that institutional investors are now more prepared to increase the allocations to gilts in their portfolios.
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Mr. Fallon I increased the allocation to St. Helens for improvement work from £311,000 last year to £556,000 this year.
receive
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When such a polarized cell divides, the two daughter cells receive different chemical allocations .
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The programme authorities and the designated districts receive smaller allocations .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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50% of the fund will be available for allocation this year.
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Schools will be given cash allocations per student.
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Some families lie about the number of people in their household in order to get larger food stamp allocations.
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Special ticket allocations were made for members of the company and their guests.
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The allocation for atomic research has been doubled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Does the allocation plan ensure that learners' holidays are known well in advance?
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Governments caring sufficiently about redistribution might still prefer inefficient allocations with greater vertical equity.
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I just know who got the money and who approved the allocations.
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Most of these allocations were for parks and recreation projects.
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The management of resource allocation involves giving attention to all these matters and how they affect roles at different hierarchical levels.
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The next step was to devise a budget allocation procedure that reflected the health needs of different areas.