English Explanatory Dictionary

allowance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
  2. Acknowledgment.
  3. An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
  4. Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person.
  5. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
  6. A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.
  7. A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
  8. A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
  9. Approval; approbation.
  10. License; indulgence.
  11. A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
verb
  1. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
  2. To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

Pronunciation

/əˈlaʊəns/ En-us-allowance.ogg

Word forms

allowance allowances allowaunce allowancing allowanced

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin laus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin laudō Latin allaudō Old French aloer ▲ Latin ad- Latin locus ▲ Latin -ō Latin locō Latin allocō Old French aloer Old French alouer Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Old French -ance Old French alouancebor. Middle English allouance English allowance From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance. Morphologically allow + -ance.

Synonyms

authorization permission sanction tolerance allowance authority clearance consent leave license mandate permit warrant stipend remedy accedence approbation approval assent assentment

Antonyms

penalty

Derived words

attendance allowance cost-of-living disallowance depreciation allowance disallowance emission allowance family allowance field allowance Jobseeker's Allowance misallowance monkey's allowance personal allowance seam allowance separation allowance travel allowance

Translations

Finnish: määräraha Finnish: päiväraha Finnish: annos French: indemnité Italian: razione Japanese: 給与 Japanese: こずかい Portuguese: permissão Russian: посо́бие German: finanzielle Abgeltung German: Kostenerstattung German: Aufwandsentschädigung Spanish: propina Spanish: viático Spanish: asignación Spanish: mesada Spanish: pitanza Spanish: acostamiento
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