Allowance ¹

Definition: Approval; approbation.

Allowance ²

Definition: The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

Allowance ³

Definition: Acknowledgment.

Allowance ⁴

Definition: License; indulgence.

Allowance ⁵

Definition: 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.

Allowance ⁶

Definition: Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

Allowance ⁷

Definition: A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

Allowance ⁸

Definition: 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.

allowance ⁹

Definition: the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom"

allowance ¹⁰

Definition: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

allowance ¹¹

Definition: an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"

allowance ¹²

Definition: an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period); "travel allowance"; "my weekly allowance of two eggs"; "a child''s allowance should not be too generous"

allowance ¹³

Definition: a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses

allowance ¹⁴

Definition: a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company''s assets

allowance ¹⁵

Definition: put on a fixed allowance, as of food