allowance

allowance
I. noun Date: 14th century 1. a. a share or portion allotted or granted b. a sum granted as a reimbursement or bounty or for expenses <
salary includes cost-of-living allowance
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; especially a sum regularly provided for personal or household expenses <
each child has an allowance
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c. a fixed or available amount <
provide an allowance of time for recreation
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d. a reduction from a list price or stated price <
a trade-in allowance
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2. an imposed handicap (as in a horse race) 3. an allowed dimensional difference between mating parts of a machine 4. the act of allowing ; permission 5. a taking into account of mitigating circumstances or contingencies <
the plan makes no allowance for bad weather
>
II. transitive verb (-anced; -ancing) Date: 1758 1. archaic to put on a fixed allowance (as of food and drink) 2. archaic to supply in a fixed or regular quantity

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  • allowance — al·low·ance /ə lau̇ əns/ n 1: an allotted share: as a: a sum granted as a reimbursement or payment for expenses an allowance to support the deceased s family deduction for a moving allowance b: a sum granted as a reduction or increase …   Law dictionary

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  • allowance — [ə lou′əns] n. 1. the act of allowing, permitting, admitting, etc. [the allowance of a claim] 2. something allowed as a share; specif., an amount of money, food, etc. given regularly to a child, dependent, etc. or to military personnel for a… …   English World dictionary

  • Allowance — Al*low ance, n. [OF. alouance.] 1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] Crabbe. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. [1913 Webster] Without the king s will or the state …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Allowance — Al*low ance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Allowancing}.] [See {Allowance}, 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • allowance — (n.) late 14c., praise (a sense now obsolete), from O.Fr. aloance allowance, granting, allocation, from alouer (see ALLOW (Cf. allow)). Sense of a sum alloted to meet expenses is from c.1400. In accounts, meaning a sum placed to one s credit is… …   Etymology dictionary

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  • Allowance — (engl., spr. ällaūens, »Erlaubnis«), s. Armenwesen (Abschnitt »England«) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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