The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ALLOCATE
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More clues leading to the result ALLOCATE
- Distribute tea, local, in new arrangement
- Greek character with company to set up after everything set aside
- Assign to a cell roughly behind front of Alcatraz
- Renovated local tea place
- Ring girl after everything is found in place
- Toilet a collaborator erected, coming within budget
- Assign place to a student
- Place brewing local tea
- Imbibing last of alcohol, tea and cola sadly set aside
- Scottish town admits Conservative extremists in the place
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The straight part
We know that "Assign" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case assign = allocate.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does ALLOCATE mean?
ALLOCATE verb- To set aside for a purpose.
- To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
- To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.