Definition of Allowance

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Allowance

Approval; approbation.

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

Acknowledgment.

License; indulgence.

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.

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

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

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.

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Allowance Quotations

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.
Christie Hefner

What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
Barbara Coloroso

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.
Margaret Cavendish

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
Stafford Cripps

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.
Marta Kristen

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey

Allowance Translations

allowance in Italian is risarcimento danni

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