The difference between Allocate and Appropriate

When used as verbs, allocate means to set aside for a purpose, whereas appropriate means to make suitable.

Appropriate is also adjective with the meaning: suitable or fit.

check bellow for the other definitions of Allocate and Appropriate

  1. Allocate as a verb:

    To set aside for a purpose.

  2. Allocate as a verb:

    To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition .

    Examples:

    "The bulk of K–12 education funds are allocated to school districts that in turn pay for the cost of operating schools."

  3. Allocate as a verb (computing):

    To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.

  1. Appropriate as an adjective:

    Suitable or fit; proper.

    Examples:

    "The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better."

  2. Appropriate as an adjective:

    Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

    Examples:

    "I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place."

    "While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended."

  3. Appropriate as an adjective (obsolete):

    Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

  1. Appropriate as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To make suitable; to suit.

    Examples:

    "rfquote William Paley lang=inline=yes"

  2. Appropriate as a verb (transitive):

    To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

    Examples:

    "Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."

  3. Appropriate as a verb (transitive):

    To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.

    Examples:

    "A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden."

    "to appropriate money for the increase of the navy"

  4. Appropriate as a verb (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal):

    To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Blackstone lang=en"

Compare words:

Compare with synonyms and related words: