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allowance - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'allowance' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Allowance [ n.]
- Approval; approbation.
- The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
- Acknowledgment.
- License; indulgence.
- 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.
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
- A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
- 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.

Meaning of 'allowance' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . allowance [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period)
Example in sentence:
  • a child's allowance should not be too generous;
  • my weekly allowance of two eggs;
  • travel allowance
Meaning (2):
- an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
Example in sentence:
  • an allowance for profit
Meaning (3):
- the act of allowing
Example in sentence:
  • He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room