ALLOWANCE

Allowance

An allowance is an amount of money given or allotted usually at regular intervals for a specific purpose. In the context of children, parents may provide an allowance to their child for their miscellaneous personal spending. In the construction industry it may be an amount allocated to a specific item of work as part of an overall contract.

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allowance

Noun

  1. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
  2. Acknowledgment.
  3. 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.
  4. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
  5. A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
  6. A child's allowance; pocket money.
    She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
  7. approval; approbation
  8. license; indulgence

Verb

  1. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
    The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
    Our provisions were allowanced.


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