Allowance
[ə'laʊəns]
Definition
(noun.) the act of allowing; 'He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room'.
(noun.) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
(noun.) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; 'an allowance for profit'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses.
(verb.) put on a fixed allowance, as of food.
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Definition
(n.) Approval; approbation.
(n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
(n.) Acknowledgment.
(n.) License; indulgence.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
(n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
(n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.
Editor: Will
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Permission, leave, license, permit, authorization, connivance, sanction, authority, approbation, sufferance.[2]. Admission, acknowledgment, concession, assent.[3]. Stipend, salary, pay, hire, wages, remuneration, recompense, commission, EXHIBITION, PITTANCE.[4]. Qualification, modification, extenuation, limitation, exception.[5]. Ration, stated quantity (of food or drink).
v. a. Put upon allowance, limit in the supply of food.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ALLOW]
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Examples
- Here is a weekly allowance, with a certain weight of coals, drops from the clouds upon me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And is no allowance to be made for inadvertence, or for spirits depressed by recent disappointment? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- When he foresees that provisions are likely to run short, he puts them upon short allowance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I make no allowance for innumerable feelings and circumstances that may have all tended to good. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Every allowance will be made for you. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He would make Mrs. George Osborne an allowance, such as to assure her a decent competency. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It's not yet brought to an exact allowance? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In exchanging, indeed, the different productions of different sorts of labour for one another, some allowance is commonly made for both. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I will make no allowance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The term pin-money dates from that time and originally came from the allowance a husband gave his wife to purchase pins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- You give me a larger allowance of sympathy than I have a just claim to. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The queen, giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was, however, surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He was a year younger than I, and young-looking even when that allowance was made. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You are readier to make allowances for her than you were yesterday. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I am aware of several causes of error, but I hope that I have made due allowances for them. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I come to beg you will make allowances for my anxiety about Marian, and let me follow her at once by the afternoon train. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Sir, he said gravely, there are great allowances to be made for a man who has not read ROBINSON CRUSOE since he was a child. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She has been with us a long time: we don't forget her claims upon us, and I hope we know how to make allowances. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I am, by nature, one of the most easy-tempered creatures that ever lived--I make allowances for everybody, and I take offence at nothing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Be so kind, Percival, as to make allowances for my foreign habit of going out with the ladies, as well as coming in with them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They are sometimes a little liable to it,' observed the patient cherub; 'but I hope you made allowances, Bella, my dear? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Lily understood the situation and could make allowances for it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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