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Definition of Allowances
1. allowance [v] - See also: allowance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allowances
Literary usage of Allowances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of war risk insurance. Division of military and naval insurance, United States (1917)
"$48.50 per month, less pension of husband and allowances for children tinder the
... In all the foregoing cases, payment of allowances for the wife and ..."
2. OECD Economic Surveys: Hungary by OECD Staff (2005)
"At the lower end of the income distribution, two special allowances mean that
those earning the minimum wage pay zero tax.5 The allowances also reduce the ..."
3. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"THE bill which I am asking leave to introduce, proposes to reduce the fishing
bounties and allowances in proportion to the reduction which the salt duty has ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Real Property by Leonard Augustus Jones (1879)
"Allowances for compensation, 1132- 1133. V. Allowances for disbursements, 1134-
IIl. Allowances for repairs and improvements, 1126-1131. 1138. ..."
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