WIKTIONARY

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.

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