allowance
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Definitions ofallowance
- Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
- 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.
Example: "her meagre allowance of food or drink"
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
Example: "to make allowance for his naivety"
- A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
Example: "Tare and tret are examples of allowance."
- A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
Example: "On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb."
- A child's allowance; pocket money.
Example: "She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month."
- (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.
- Approval; approbation
- License; indulgence
- To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
Example: "The captain was obliged to allowance his crew."
- To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
Example: "Our provisions were allowanced."
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