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English Dictionary: allowance	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
allowance n 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" a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit" Synonym(s): allowance, adjustment a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits Synonym(s): allowance, leeway, margin, tolerance a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets Synonym(s): valuation reserve, valuation account, allowance, allowance account the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room" v put on a fixed allowance, as of food
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Allowance \Allow"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Allowancing}.] [See {Allowance}, n.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Allowance \Allow"ance\, n. [OF. alouance.] 1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] --Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; 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. [Obs.] --Locke. 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. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.