Definitions for allowance

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allowance al·low·ance

Spelling: [uh-lou-uh ns]

IPA: /əˈlaʊ əns/

Allowance is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in allowance (aacellnow).

Definitions for allowance

noun

1. the act of allowing.
2. an amount or share allotted or granted.
3. a sum of money allotted or granted for a particular purpose, as for expenses:
4. a sum of money allotted or granted to a person on a regular basis, as for personal or general living expenses:
5. an addition or deduction based on an extenuating or qualifying circumstance:
6. acknowledgment; concession:
7. sanction; tolerance:
8. Machinery. a prescribed difference in dimensions of two closely fitting mating parts with regard to minimum clearance or maximum interference. Compare tolerance (def 6a).
9. Coining. tolerance (def 7).

Idioms

1. make allowance / allowances (for), to take mitigating factors or circumstances into consideration. to pardon; excuse. to reserve time, money, etc.; allow for:

verb (used with object)

1. to place on a fixed allowance, as of food or drink.
2. to allocate (supplies, rations, etc.) in fixed or regular amounts.

Origin of allowance

1350-1400; Middle English alouance Middle French. See allow, -ance

Examples for allowance

Laham pays $200 a month for rent alone, and, like Nidal, she has used up her UNRWA allowance.

Wondering now I was how we should last until the next quarter's allowance.

"You don't make any allowance for the views of women," Roger said.

He was a year younger than I, and young-looking even when that allowance was made.

If Justin Bieber were Tom Brady's son, Brady would most likely be unable to afford his weekly allowance.

This allowance worked for the state (Maria Theresa taxed their production).

It's here that you see the $130-million plus Catching Fire budget, upped from The Hunger Games' $78-million allowance, pay off.

Many European countries offer some form of mother's allowance.

He meant to keep up her allowance, he said, and he had insured his life for her.

You are heated now, Sir, and I can make every allowance for your natural vexation.