law, British: a procedure for determining whether a defendant should be tried in a magistrates's court or sent to a Crown Court for trial
allocational
ˌa-lə-ˈkā-shnəl,
-shə-nᵊl
adjective
… public education is seen as a service that is provided to every child and is, thus, allocational in nature … —Louise Adler, The Politics of Linking Schools and Social Services, 1994
allocational efficiency
Word History
Etymology
Medieval Latin allocation-, allocatio, from allocatus + Latin -ion-, -io -ion
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