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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.

BABYLON ENGLISH
allowance n.
stipend; grant; pocket money; discount, deduction; acknowledgment

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
allowance
allowance
allowably \al*low"a*bly\, adv. in an allowable manner.
similar words(2)

a grain of allowance
travel allowance

WORDNET 2.0
allowance
Noun
1. an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period); "travel allowance"; "my weekly allowance of two eggs"; "a child's allowance should not be too generous"
(hypernym) share, portion, part, percentage
(hyponym) privy purse
2. a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
(hypernym) reimbursement
(hyponym) travel allowance
3. an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"
(synonym) adjustment
(hypernym) recompense
(hyponym) cost-of-living allowance
4. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
(synonym) leeway, margin, tolerance
(hypernym) discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance
(derivation) allow, permit, tolerate
5. a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
(synonym) valuation reserve, valuation account, allowance account
(hypernym) reserve account, reserve fund
6. the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom"
(hypernym) license, permission, permit
(hyponym) tolerance
(derivation) allow, permit, tolerate
Verb
1. put on a fixed allowance, as of food
(hypernym) allow, grant

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Allowance
Allowance may refer to:Allowance (money)Allowances in accounting, see Accounts receivablePersonal allowance in the United Kingdom's taxing systemJobseeker's Allowance, a term for unemployment benefit in the United KingdomEU AllowancesAllowance (engineering)Allowance race, a type of horse raceIn grocery retail, “allowances” refers to discounts given to retailers in exchange for either favorable placement of a product in their stores, or sometimes even the initial or continued stocking of a product. Tradable allowanceBaggage allowance on airlinesDecorative Allowance in real estateSeam allowance in stitching
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WIKTIONARY - Yabla

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.

BABYLON ENGLISH
allowance n.
stipend; grant; pocket money; discount, deduction; acknowledgment

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
allowance
allowance
allowably \al*low"a*bly\, adv. in an allowable manner.
similar words(2)

a grain of allowance
travel allowance

WORDNET 2.0
allowance
Noun
1. an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period); "travel allowance"; "my weekly allowance of two eggs"; "a child's allowance should not be too generous"
(hypernym) share, portion, part, percentage
(hyponym) privy purse
2. a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
(hypernym) reimbursement
(hyponym) travel allowance
3. an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"
(synonym) adjustment
(hypernym) recompense
(hyponym) cost-of-living allowance
4. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
(synonym) leeway, margin, tolerance
(hypernym) discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance
(derivation) allow, permit, tolerate
5. a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
(synonym) valuation reserve, valuation account, allowance account
(hypernym) reserve account, reserve fund
6. the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom"
(hypernym) license, permission, permit
(hyponym) tolerance
(derivation) allow, permit, tolerate
Verb
1. put on a fixed allowance, as of food
(hypernym) allow, grant

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Allowance
Allowance may refer to:Allowance (money)Allowances in accounting, see Accounts receivablePersonal allowance in the United Kingdom's taxing systemJobseeker's Allowance, a term for unemployment benefit in the United KingdomEU AllowancesAllowance (engineering)Allowance race, a type of horse raceIn grocery retail, “allowances” refers to discounts given to retailers in exchange for either favorable placement of a product in their stores, or sometimes even the initial or continued stocking of a product. Tradable allowanceBaggage allowance on airlinesDecorative Allowance in real estateSeam allowance in stitching
See more at Wikipedia.org...

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