allowance

Meanings

Noun

• permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
• Acknowledgment.
• An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose
• Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
• A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
• A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
• A child's allowance; pocket money.
• A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
• approval; approbation
• license; indulgence
• A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension

Verb

• To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
• To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

Related

Similar words

• authorization, permission, sanction, tolerance.
• stipend
• remedy, tolerance

Origin

• From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance.
• Morphologically allow + -ance.