allowance
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Old French alouance (compare allouer)
[edit] Pronunciation
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- IPA: /əˈlaʊəns/, SAMPA: /@"laU@ns/
[edit] Noun
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allowance (plural allowances)
- The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
- Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --Shakespeare
- Acknowledgment.
- The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --Shakespeare
- 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. -- William Makepeace Thackeray.
- 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. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
- A child's allowance; pocket money.
[edit] Translations
the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance
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acknowledgment
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abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
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a customary deduction from the gross weight of goods
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a child's allowance; pocket money — see pocket money
Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
