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allowance
Noun
  • The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
  • Acknowledgment.
  • That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
  • Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
  • A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. commerce
  • A child's allowance; pocket money.
  • A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law. minting
  • approval; approbation obsolete
  • license; indulgence obsolete
Verb
  • To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.