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Deciding who gets the pizza before anyone admits they're hungry.
means The act of dividing up a limited resource among different people or purposes according to a plan.
from From Latin allocare — 'ad' (to) plus 'locare' (to place, from locus, 'place'). The word entered English through medieval accounting and legal usage, where clerks used it to mark sums 'placed to' a particular account. It's a cousin of 'locale' and 'location' — all sharing that root sense of putting something in its proper spot.
- finance meaning
- Splitting money across assets so one disaster can't ruin you
- the catch
- Optimal allocation today looks dumb by tomorrow, always
- tech meaning
- Memory reserved for a program that may never use it
- human truth
- Where you put time reveals priorities words never will