allocatorn.
/ˈaləkeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈæləˌkeɪdər/ A person who or thing which allocates something.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting > one who assigns or allots
carver1578
proportioner1590
allotter1591
assigner1667
apportioner1884
allocator1885
1885 London City Livery Companies' Vindic. 53 The case of Mr. Thwaites, who bequeathed his twenty thousand pounds to the good brethren of Clothworkers, and which the allocators..already propose to redistribute.
1897 Times 24 Aug. 8/5 The accumulation of the functions of a financial critic, a contractor, and an allocator of contracts upon a single individual.
1934 N.Y. Times 6 Apr. 35/6 The district allocator..shall make every effort to avoid inequities that may exist in the availability of supplies of crude oil to refiners.
1972 Computer Jrnl. 15 198/1 The function must therefore claim a new vector from the storage allocator.
2011 L. Braham House that Bogle Built xviii. 271 A basic faith that..human beings are rational, efficient allocators of capital.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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