allowance
noun
- money allotted at regular intervals
- allocate
verb
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Pronunciation: /əˈlaʊəns/ / /əˈlaʊɪns/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin laus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin laudō Latin allaudō Old French aloer ▲ Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *stel-der. Proto-Italic *stlokos? Old Latin stlocus Latin locus ▲ Latin -ō Latin locō Latin allocō Old French aloer Old French alouer Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Old French -ance Old French alouancebor. Middle English allouance English allowance From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance. Morphologically allow + -ance.
- Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
“you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance”
“[Mr. Michie] Q[uestion]. Didn't Dr. Carter, Director of the OHTA [Office of Health Technology Assessment], and Martin Erlichman, OHTA scientific analyst assigned to this assessment, express to you concerns about 60 days being unreasonable as far as timeframe was concerned for this assessment? [Mr. Marshall] A[nswer]. There was some discussion about that, but that occurred some time later when we made the decision to put a notice in the Federal Register. We—when we do an assessment, we put a notice in the Federal Register and then that requires the allowance of a certain amount of time for public comment.”
- Acknowledgment.
“The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.”
- An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
“her meagre allowance of food or drink”
“Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.”
- An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
“She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.”
“Some persons averred that Sir Pitt Crawley gave his brother a handsome allowance.”
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
“to make allowance for his naivety”
“After making the largest allowance for fraud.”
- A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.
“Minus the allowance, the total came to thirteen tons.”
- A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
“On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.”
- 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.
“[…]gave allowance where he needed none”
- License; indulgence.
“this Allowance for their Transgressions”
- A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin laus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin laudō Latin allaudō Old French aloer ▲ Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *stel-der. Proto-Italic *stlokos? Old Latin stlocus Latin locus ▲ Latin -ō Latin locō Latin allocō Old French aloer Old French alouer Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Old French -ance Old French alouancebor. Middle English allouance English allowance From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance. Morphologically allow + -ance.
- To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
“The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.”
- To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
“Our provisions were allowanced.”