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reallocate

verb

Etymology

From re- + allocate.

  1. derived from allocō
  2. borrowed from allocātus
  3. prefixed as reallocate — “re + allocate”

Definitions

  1. To allocate (a resource) to another person or purpose.

    • Near-synonym: redistribute
    • I want to reallocate some of my money from stocks to bonds. (I want to sell some of my stocks and use the proceeds to buy bonds to replace them.)

  2. To allocate again.

    • Appending items one at a time is still a better deal than concatenation, which reallocates every time.

The neighborhood

Derived

reallocatable, reallocator

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reallocate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA