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Definition of Allowance
1. Noun. An amount allowed or granted (as during a given period). "A child's allowance should not be too generous"
Specialized synonyms: Privy Purse
Derivative terms: Allow
2. Verb. Put on a fixed allowance, as of food.
3. Noun. A sum granted as reimbursement for expenses.
Specialized synonyms: Per Diem, Travel Allowance, Travel Reimbursement
4. Noun. An amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances. "An allowance for profit"
Specialized synonyms: Cost-of-living Allowance, Depreciation Allowance, Deduction, Discount, Seasonal Adjustment, Tare
Generic synonyms: Recompense
Derivative terms: Adjust
5. Noun. A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
Generic synonyms: Disagreement, Discrepancy, Divergence, Variance
Derivative terms: Allow
6. Noun. A reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets.
Generic synonyms: Reserve Account, Reserve Fund
7. Noun. The act of allowing. "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"
Definition of Allowance
1. n. Approval; approbation.
2. v. t. 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.
Definition of Allowance
1. Noun. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. ¹
2. Noun. Acknowledgment. ¹
3. Noun. 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. ¹
4. Noun. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. ¹
5. Noun. (context: commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. ¹
6. Noun. A child's allowance; pocket money. ¹
7. Verb. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Allowance
1. [v -ANCED, -ANCING, -ANCES]
Medical Definition of Allowance
1. 1. Approval; approbation. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorisation; 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. 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. A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. Origin: OF. Alouance. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially. 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. Origin: See Allowance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allowance
Literary usage of Allowance
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)
"The following extracts are from regulations and instructions published by the
statutory committee: TEMPORARY allowance. In the case of a soldier or sailor ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Besides this allowance, he has also an indemnity granted him, of being free and
discharged forever from all debts owing by him at the time he became a ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"In ordinary cases, the signing of a citation In Urne, by the proper justice or
judge, is a sufficient allowance of an appeal, 1886, the appeal was docketed ..."
4. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"... as to who should lie elected to go up to the great house farm for the allowance,
and, indeed, to attend to any business at his, (for them,) the capital. ..."
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