How to pronounce “allowance”

Meaning

• [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.
• Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
• (commerce) A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.
• (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
• (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.
• (engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
• (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

Practice Nearby Words

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