HOW TO PRONOUNCE
allowance
/əˈlaʊɪns/
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What does allowance mean?
noun
- Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
- Acknowledgment.
- An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
More meanings (11)
noun
- Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person.
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
- A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.
- A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
- A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
- A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
- (obsolete) Approval; approbation.
- (obsolete) License; indulgence.
- (historical) A sum of money allotted to a wife for her separate maintenance, especially alimony granted upon a legal separation or divorce.
verb
- To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
- To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈlaʊɪns/
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See this word in context.
She had been given a check for seventy-eight dollars, and from this, she explained, my allowance would be paid in weekly instalments.
He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel.
More book examples (3)
Certainly, when every allowance is made for pardonable or unintentional exaggeration, it must be conceded that there were giants in those days.
During this time he had been obliged to pinch himself in a thousand ways in order to eke out his modest allowance.
And if allowance be made for the change in theological standpoint, the material points of resemblance are seen to be very marked.