Definition of "allocative"

allocative

adjective
not comparable
1. (uncommon) Synonym of allocational (“of or pertaining to the allocation of resources”)
  Quotations
  [...] and Britain has recently experienced the emergence or increased importance of new types of allocative controllers in both the financial and management worlds. Property developers, unit trusts and the new group of financial entrepreneurs, ...
  1974, Philip Stanworth, Anthony Giddens, Elites and Power in British Society, CUP Archive, page 115
  1978, Malcolm Gillis, Allocative Efficiency and X-efficiency in State-owned Enterprises: Some Asian and Latin American Cases in the Mining Sector
  1988, Wallace E. Oates, Robert M. Schwab, The Allocative and Distributive Implications of Local Fiscal Competition
  1996, Janet M. Eisenhauer, An Investigation of the Socioeconomic Determinants of Allocative Inefficiency for the Owner Operated Firm, with an Application to Family Farming in Wisconsin