Allocation

1. n. The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; — a term used in the English exchequer.
2. n. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
3. n. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.