allowancenoun/əˈlaʊəns/

• 1

  Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

  • you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance
  • [Mr. Michie] Q[uestion]. Didn't Dr. Carter, Director of the OHTA [Office of Health Technology Assessment], and Martin Erlichman, OHTA scientific analyst assigned to this assessment, express to you concerns about 60 days being unreasonable as far as timeframe was concerned for this assessment? [Mr. Marshall] A[nswer]. There was some discussion about that, but that occurred some time later when we made the decision to put a notice in the Federal Register. We—when we do an assessment, we put a notice in the Federal Register and then that requires the allowance of a certain amount of time for public comment.
• 2

  Acknowledgment.

  • The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.
• 3

  An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.

  • her meagre allowance of food or drink
  • Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.
• 4

  An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.

  • She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
  • Some persons averred that Sir Pitt Crawley gave his brother a handsome allowance.
• 5

  Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.

  • to make allowance for his naivety
  • After making the largest allowance for fraud.
• 6

  businesscommerceA deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.

  • Minus the allowance, the total came to thirteen tons.
• 7

  hobbieshorse-racinghorseracingA permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.

  • On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.
• 8

  A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.

allowanceverb/əˈlaʊəns/

• 1

  To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).

  • The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
• 2

  To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

  • Our provisions were allowanced.