ETYM Late Lat. allocatus, p. p. of allocare, from Latin ad + locare to place. Related to Allow.
To distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; SYN. apportion.
vormerken, freihalten; aufbewahren.
reserviert
zurückhaltend, kühl.
To reserve a resource, such as sufficient memory, for use by a program. Compare deallocate.