See allocate on Wiktionary
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"sense": "to set aside for a purpose",
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to set aside for a purpose",
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"sense": "to set aside for a purpose",
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"sense": "to set aside for a purpose",
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"sense": "to set aside for a purpose",
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"sense": "to set aside for a purpose",
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "otpuskam",
"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
"word": "jyvittää"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
"word": "jakaa"
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
"word": "配置する"
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
"word": "tuw(h)atuw(h)a"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
"word": "przydzielić"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
"word": "alocar"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "to distribute according to a plan",
"word": "paylaştırmak"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program",
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program",
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program",
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