allowance
IPA: ʌɫˈaʊʌns
noun
- Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
- Acknowledgment.
- An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
- Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person.
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
- (commerce) A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.
- (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
- (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
- (obsolete) Approval; approbation.
- (obsolete) License; indulgence.
- (engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
verb
- (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
- (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
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Examples of "allowance" in Sentences
- The surplus of others allowance is also available.
- The purpose of an allowance is to teach a child wise money management.
- I volunteer for every shift available, the allowance is better than nothing.
- The state-funded living allowance is intended to supplement to that other aid, Barlow said.
- II. i.49 (398,4) Of very expert and approv'd allowance] I read, _Very expert, and of approv'd allowance_.
- The allowance is part of a Medicaid waiver program designed to help the severely disabled live independently.
- This raises the suspicion that unused parliamentary air ticket allowance is sold illegally to travel agents, who resell it to customers.
- Bankrolled by an allowance from a rich uncle, she finds all of those as she takes small acting roles and moves from cafés and nightclubs in Montparnasse to a villa near Biarritz.
- "The Credit Suisse results may not be as bad as they appear at first sight when allowance is made for own-credit losses, which are meaningless in economic terms, but there are some disturbing aspects, notably at the investment bank," said Peter Thorne, London-based analyst with independent brokerage Helvea.
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