allocate
Meaning: to distribute, set aside
Usage: The Mayor allocated 30 percent of the funds for improving the town’s schools.
Meaning: to distribute, set aside
Usage: The Mayor allocated 30 percent of the funds for improving the town’s schools.
Meaning: to send off to accomplish a duty
Usage: The carpenter dispatched his assistant to fetch wood.
Meaning: to assign to the proper place 2. to assign to an inferior place
Usage: After spilling a drink on a customer’s shirt, the waiter found himself relegated to the least lucrative shift.