allow
IPA: ʌɫˈaʊ
verb
- (ditransitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
- (transitive, catenative) To enable; to permit; to grant license to; to consent to.
- To not bar or obstruct.
- (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
- (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
- (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
- (transitive) To render physically possible.
- (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
- (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
- (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
- (law, transitive) To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).
- (transitive, MTE, MLE) To forgo bothering with, to let slide.
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Examples of "allow" in Sentences
- They deadened the allowance.
- That was the allowable practice.
- The officers were allowed to have concubines.
- They were not allowed to dissipate the allowance like that.
- But the satrap was allowed to have troops in his own service.
- In aggressively confronting him, you have allowed the boor to infect you.
- Serialism is allowing the chromatic tones to have equality within the piece.
- So at the least let us allow ourselves to be more dignified than the animals.
- They have extra maxillary teeth to allow proper mastication of plant material.
- Air New Zealand have airfares that include baggage allowances and refreshments.
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