"allocative" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1974, Philip Stanworth, Anthony Giddens, Elites and Power in British Society, CUP Archive, →ISBN, page 115:",
          "text": "[...] and Britain has recently experienced the emergence or increased importance of new types of allocative controllers in both the financial and management worlds. Property developers, unit trusts and the new group of financial entrepreneurs, ...",
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          "ref": "1978, Malcolm Gillis, Allocative Efficiency and X-efficiency in State-owned Enterprises: Some Asian and Latin American Cases in the Mining Sector:",
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          "ref": "1988, Wallace E. Oates, Robert M. Schwab, The Allocative and Distributive Implications of Local Fiscal Competition:",
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          "ref": "1996, Janet M. Eisenhauer, An Investigation of the Socioeconomic Determinants of Allocative Inefficiency for the Owner Operated Firm, with an Application to Family Farming in Wisconsin:",
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        "(uncommon) Synonym of allocational (“of or pertaining to the allocation of resources”)"
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          "sense": "pertaining to allocation",
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