ALLOWANCE

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

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Etymology

Noun

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

Synonyms

• (act of allowing): authorization, permission, sanction, tolerance.

• (money): stipend

• (minting): remedy, tolerance

Verb

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

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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

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