allowance
Noun
1. 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"
(hypernym) share, portion, part, percentage
(hyponym) privy purse
2. a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
(hypernym) reimbursement
(hyponym) travel allowance
3. an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"
(synonym) adjustment
(hypernym) recompense
(hyponym) cost-of-living allowance
4. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
(synonym) leeway, margin, tolerance
(hypernym) discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance
(derivation) allow, permit, tolerate
5. a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
(synonym) valuation reserve, valuation account, allowance account
(hypernym) reserve account, reserve fund
6. the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom"
(hypernym) license, permission, permit
(hyponym) tolerance
(derivation) allow, permit, tolerate
Verb
1. put on a fixed allowance, as of food
(hypernym) allow, grant
Allowancing
(imp. & p. p.)
of Allowance
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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