allow
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English allouen, from Old French alouer , from Medieval Latin allaudāre (“‘to praise’”), (ad-) + laudare, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin allocāre (“‘to assign’”).
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[edit] Verb
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to allow (third-person singular simple present allows, present participle allowing, simple past and past participle allowed)
- (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
- To allow a servant his liberty
- To allow a free passage
- To allow one day for rest.
- He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. — Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
- To allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
- I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. — William Makepeace Thackeray.
- (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct;
- To allow a sum for leakage.
- (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
- To allow a son to be absent
- Smoking allowed only in designated areas.
- (intransitive) To let something happen, to admit; to concede;
- (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
- When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.
[edit] Synonyms
allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate.
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[edit] Translations
to grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have
to acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion
to take into account as a deduction or an addition
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to permit
to let something happen, to admit, to concede
to make allowance
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[edit] References
- allow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

