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allowance |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Allowance \Al*low"ance\, n. [OF. alouance.] 1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] --Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --Shak. 3. Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others --Shak. 4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] --Locke. 5. 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. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. --Thackeray. 6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. --Macaulay. 7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 allowanced. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: allowance n 1: 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" 2: a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses 3: an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit" [syn: {adjustment}] 4: a permissible difference [syn: {leeway}, {margin}, {tolerance}] 5: a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets [syn: {valuation reserve}, {valuation account}, {allowance account}] 6: the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom" v : put on a fixed allowance, as of food
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