allowance
(noun) the act of allowing; “He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room”
allowance, leeway, margin, tolerance
(noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
allowance, adjustment
(noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; “an allowance for profit”
allowance
(noun) 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”
allowance
(noun) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
allowance
(verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food
Source: WordNet® 3.1
allowance (countable and uncountable, plural allowances)
permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
Acknowledgment.
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.
Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
(horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
Antonym: penalty
A child's allowance; pocket money.
(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
(obsolete) approval; approbation
(obsolete) license; indulgence
• (act of allowing): authorization, permission, sanction, tolerance.
• (money): stipend
• (minting): remedy, tolerance
allowance (third-person singular simple present allowances, present participle allowancing, simple past and past participle allowanced)
(transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
(transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
Source: Wiktionary
Al*low"ance, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
Al*low"ance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing.] Etym: [See Allowance, n.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 October 2024
(adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; “dateless customs”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
