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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
allowance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tax allowance (=an amount you can earn without paying tax on it)
▪ Cutting personal tax allowances penalizes the poor.
baggage allowance (=the amount of baggage you are allowed to take on a plane)
▪ There's a 20 kilo baggage allowance.
Jobseeker's Allowance
mobility allowanceBritish English (= money paid to sick or disabled people to help pay for transport)
personal allowance
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
additional
▪ Unfortunately this is a commitment which is unlikely to be supported by higher pay or additional allowances.
▪ Besides this, employees receive an additional taxable transfer allowance of £526 paid in three instalments over 16 months.
annual
▪ Day to day expenses are covered by her annual allowance of £2.5 million.
▪ He also gets a $ 4, 800 annual car allowance plus $ 5, 599 a year for other expenses.
▪ Unlike Tessas, these accounts have instant access and do not count towards your normal £7,000 annual Isa allowance.
▪ His new salary will be $ 156, 000 plus an $ 8, 340 annual car allowance.
▪ For non-working spouses, sufficient units can be encashed each tax year to bring total income up to just below the annual allowance.
▪ Your annual leave allowance will be 22 days with pay.
capital
▪ The increase in capital allowances is very welcome.
▪ This is because of the limited partnerships' tax losses while drilling, and the availability of capital allowances.
▪ This ensures that the sum of capital allowances is equal to the real depreciation incurred.
▪ Retail developments will not qualify for industrial buildings allowances. Capital allowances on plant and machinery.
▪ Spending on capital items and allowances for depreciation also affected the cash flow differently last year.
▪ The lessor receives capital allowances against tax. 2.
▪ The asset belongs to the lessor, and so capital allowances are not available to the company.
▪ Timing of tax cash flow. Capital allowances reduce a company's tax liability and thus improve its after-tax cash flow.
compensatory
▪ When will he announce an enhanced hill livestock compensatory allowance?
▪ Thirdly, there is strong support for the hill livestock compensatory allowances, amounting to £142 million in a full year.
▪ Slightly increased maxima for compensatory allowances are specified. 6.
▪ Mr. Curry Payments to farmers under the 1992 hill livestock compensatory allowances scheme have already begun.
daily
▪ Many companies institutionalize dishonesty and exploitation of expenses by paying daily allowances.
▪ Know your average daily allowance for meat.
▪ In Long Kesh Prison, fellow prisoners used to save for him part of their daily allowance of milk.
▪ The current recommended daily allowance for vitamin E is 30 milligrams a day.
▪ To receive their full daily subsistence allowances, MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.
▪ Nutritional deficiency must be avoided by providing the recommended daily allowance of protein in the evening meal and later in the day.
▪ This time she asked Congress to approve a 100 percent increase in soldiers' daily allowance.
▪ The recommended daily allowance of B12 is three milligrams daily.
due
▪ However they will understand the difficulties of using such an unpredictable material as wood, and make due allowance for minor defects.
▪ Even when due allowance is made for the material advantages of Gloucester's lordship, there is no doubt of his personal attraction.
▪ However, when I later discussed the matter with him, he agreed and presumably was able to make due allowance.
full
▪ On the subject of Fanatics you should always buy the full allowance.
▪ In both cases your gross pay will be as normal, unless you have exhausted the full sickness allowance.
▪ To receive their full daily subsistence allowances, MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.
▪ I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband, applying for full attendance allowance on March 3.
generous
▪ Some firms do this by giving non-essential workers less generous relocation allowances than those given to key staff.
invalid
▪ The invalid care allowance she receives is 33.70 a week Marian set up a support group for carers in Oxfordshire.
▪ It calls for the invalid care allowance to be increased and extended in the budget.
▪ If you were entitled to maternity allowance, invalid care allowance or unemployability supplement.
▪ The current rate of invalid care allowance is £26.20.
▪ So Jaqueline and other women like her should now receive the invalid care allowance.
▪ As resources allow, we will improve and extend invalid care allowance.
living
▪ They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money.
▪ The disability working allowance - like its companion benefit, the disability living allowance - will be tax free.
▪ Their £140-a-day living allowance alone is about what pensioners get for their keep a month.
▪ Old age pensions were increased and cuts imposed in 1989 on public-sector salaries were restored together with some cost of living allowance arrears.
married
Married couples will have the option of splitting the married couple's allowance between them as they choose.
▪ A married man living with his wife may also be able to claim part of the married couple's allowance.
▪ The rules apply to the basic married couple's allowance and also to the age-related addition.
▪ As with the personal allowance, older people enjoy a more generous married couple's allowance.
▪ In addition to this, there is a married couples's allowance which is usually paid to the man in the first instance.
▪ In addition, the Chancellor plans to restrict the married couple's allowance to the new low rate.
▪ Single person's allowance up £90 to £2425; married man's allowance up to £3795.
▪ But the married couples allowance is unchanged.
monthly
▪ I was looking forward to my day because I would be getting my monthly allowance of thirty pounds from my mum.
▪ It paid me a monthly allowance, which was never enough.
personal
▪ Income tax thresholds were raised from G$10,000 to G$48,000 with lower tax rates planned to offset the withdrawal of personal allowances.
▪ Each worker is given an income tax code number which is related to the total of his personal allowances.
▪ Under this there will be a basic personal allowance topped up by premiums for certain groups.
▪ Only people whose total income is less than their personal allowances are allowed to register for gross interest payments.
▪ The chancellor fully indexed personal income-tax allowances.
▪ As with the personal allowance, older people enjoy a more generous married couple's allowance.
▪ On the income tax front, both husband and wife have a personal allowance which is free of tax.
▪ Everyone retains a personal allowance of at least £12.65 per week.
single
▪ It offered married men a tax allowance of some one-and-a-half times the single person's allowance to which working wives were entitled.
▪ I refer to paid maternity leave, child allowance, single parent allowances etc.
special
▪ We have a special petrol allowance for that.
▪ Grants for mature students are income related, but special allowances are available.
▪ No special allowances are made for graduates, either.
■ NOUN
attendance
▪ If they are very ill they can claim other benefits, such as attendance allowance.
▪ We still have to wait months for payment of vitally important benefits such as the attendance allowance.
▪ These totals exclude mortgage interest and disregarded income, for example, attendance allowance.
▪ A councillor may give written notice to his council that he wishes to receive a financial loss allowance instead of an attendance allowance.
▪ He may revert to an attendance allowance by further written notice.
▪ In 1970 an attendance allowance was introduced, payable to a person in need of substantial care and attention.
▪ I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband, applying for full attendance allowance on March 3.
▪ In this context neither the attendance allowances nor the SRAs are sufficiently realistic.
care
▪ The invalid care allowance she receives is 33.70 a week Marian set up a support group for carers in Oxfordshire.
▪ Invalid care allowance For full details see leaflet NI212.
▪ It calls for the invalid care allowance to be increased and extended in the budget.
▪ To back this up we provide subsidised nurseries and a dependent care allowance to those whose hours change at short notice.
▪ If you were entitled to maternity allowance, invalid care allowance or unemployability supplement.
▪ The current rate of invalid care allowance is £26.20.
▪ So Jaqueline and other women like her should now receive the invalid care allowance.
▪ As resources allow, we will improve and extend invalid care allowance.
child
▪ Another form of child allowance was introduced during the first World War.
▪ My child allowance is approximately thirty-seven pounds a month so mum keeps seven pounds and I have thirty.
▪ I refer to paid maternity leave, child allowance, single parent allowances etc.
mileage
▪ Now the Government has proposed to crack down on mileage allowances by taxing drivers who cover large distances.
mobility
▪ Free car parking to people in receipt of mobility allowance and claiming exemption from road fund duty.
▪ These are child benefits, industrial injuries and death benefits, certain invalidity benefits, and attendance and mobility allowances.
▪ Female speaker Children under 5 aren't eligible for mobility allowance to help the parents with transport.
▪ The mobility allowance amounted initially to £10 a week and was recognised as anything but adequate.
▪ We will increase Invalidity Benefit by 15%, extend mobility allowance and base payments on medical records rather than National Insurance contributions.
relocation
▪ This raises the question of eligibility for relocation allowances.
▪ A section at the end looks at relocation allowances offered to new recruits who have to move to take up an appointment.
▪ Organisations may also not wish to pay relocation allowances to staff approaching retirement.
▪ Some firms do this by giving non-essential workers less generous relocation allowances than those given to key staff.
scheme
▪ However, many excess mortgage allowance schemes run for a shorter time, for instance, for five or seven years.
▪ It calculates that the Government has underfunded the incentive allowances scheme by some £12m a year.
▪ All these factors were intensified by rural population growth, although it was not in itself caused by the family-based allowance scheme.
▪ Mr. Curry Payments to farmers under the 1992 hill livestock compensatory allowances scheme have already begun.
seam
▪ Press the seam allowance to one side.
▪ Turn under the raw edge of the top seam allowance and tack in place over the trimmed edge.
▪ Also cut one from interfacing, without a seam allowance.
▪ Turn in the raw edges of both seam allowances towards each other and match the folded edges.
▪ Press seam allowance to the wrong side on the lining and notch out in the same way.
▪ Trim seam allowances and clip around curve.
sickness
▪ During the waiting days your pay will consist of the sickness allowance.
▪ In both cases your gross pay will be as normal, unless you have exhausted the full sickness allowance.
subsistence
▪ To receive their full daily subsistence allowances, MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.
▪ Travelling and subsistence allowances are not subject to tax.
▪ He would also have received a subsistence allowance from his employers.
▪ They consist of: £29 a day subsistence allowance to cover meals, taxis and other incidentals.
tax
▪ These include a capital gains tax cut, a 15% investment tax allowance and across-the-board tax rate cuts.
▪ Personal tax allowances are expected to be frozen and taxes on petrol, drink and tobacco raised.
▪ This could, of course, be extended to the whole range of non-personal tax allowances.
▪ Naval officers received no help from the Treasury for their outfits, though they were given a small tax allowance.
▪ Employers' social security contributions were reduced by 4.3 percent from Jan. 1, 1993, and income tax allowances were reduced.
▪ Pressure is mounting for tax allowances on childcare.
▪ And freezing personal tax allowances means more people will have to pay tax.
▪ Now John Smith has plans to borrow to increase tax allowances.
■ VERB
claim
▪ Registered blind people can claim an allowance of £1,080 a year.
▪ If both husband and wife are registered as blind, they can each claim the allowance.
▪ The wife, if she so wishes, will be able to claim half the allowance as of right.
▪ For an asset disposed of after 5 April 1985, a form of relief known as an indexation allowance may be claimed.
▪ Because everybody claimed the allowances, the cost of increasing the value of the tax allowances was substantially increased.
▪ Correct information must be made available to people who claim the new allowances.
▪ In respect of cars, there is a cap on the amount perannum for which Newco can claim allowances.
entitle
▪ Employees who are not at present house-owners may be entitled to a mortgage allowance in certain exceptional circumstances.
▪ Parties and witnesses are entitled to allowances for loss of earnings, subsistence and travel to and from the tribunal.
▪ If he does not, the customer is entitled to their part-exchange allowance instead.
▪ If you were entitled to maternity allowance, invalid care allowance or unemployability supplement.
▪ Everyone is entitled to a personal allowance.
▪ All the teachers in 1987 who were entitled to an allowance received one.
give
▪ Table 3.4 gives examples of disturbance allowances paid in 14 organisations.
▪ Instead of paying children for jobs, give an allowance that is not tied to performance.
▪ If Pickles really does love you, maybe the pater would give her a decent allowance and you'd manage somehow.
▪ As if water had the power of counsel, of giving allowance or giving notice against its own exploitation.
▪ Widows are given an allowance because they are deemed to have been financially dependent.
▪ Naval officers received no help from the Treasury for their outfits, though they were given a small tax allowance.
▪ Although her father gave her an allowance, within six months of starting work Kate could have managed without it.
▪ Isabella was sentenced to lose all her lands, but was given an allowance of £3,000 a year to maintain her estate.
include
▪ The new system should, it was argued, include family allowances, maternity benefits and provision for widows.
increase
▪ Allow 10% of the rate of increase of height, but increase this allowance to 20% when levelling from descent.
▪ They increased allowances for students who had protested against their abysmal living conditions, and they permitted a degree of press criticism.
▪ Now John Smith has plans to borrow to increase tax allowances.
make
▪ Second, the method makes no allowance for the loss of coinage from circulation.
▪ It is possible to make approximate allowance for backspace by releasing the source-machine off play-pause about one second late.
▪ An application for the allowance should be made on the mortgage allowance claim form.
▪ However they will understand the difficulties of using such an unpredictable material as wood, and make due allowance for minor defects.
▪ It makes no allowance for individual progression which does not follow this ordering.
▪ Those who claimed a break-even or loss situation did not make allowance for home produced food.
▪ Please make allowances for her - I expect you know her husband killed himself.
▪ Mr. Clark I make allowances for the fact that the hon. Gentleman clearly prepared his supplementary before the news was announced.
pay
▪ Many companies institutionalize dishonesty and exploitation of expenses by paying daily allowances.
▪ Sunday was when the Gap Kids got paid allowances and went shopping for Reeboks in refrigerated malls after church.
▪ The £95m improvement in non-performing loans would pay for these allowances for the next 100 years.
▪ It paid me a monthly allowance, which was never enough.
▪ Organisations may also not wish to pay relocation allowances to staff approaching retirement.
▪ Prudential Assurance, for example, pays a tax-free allowance of £77 per child towards the cost of replacing school uniforms.
▪ It is as if we were to pay family allowances to every third family on a different scale in each place.
▪ Social services have stopped paying a £30 attendance allowance for Becky to go to Southampton once every two months for treatment.
provide
▪ About four in 10 companies provide rented accommodation but only a fifth provide a housing allowance.
▪ Nutritional deficiency must be avoided by providing the recommended daily allowance of protein in the evening meal and later in the day.
▪ But the Government has provided compensation allowances in income support payments equal to the average poll tax bill in each council area.
receive
▪ Some relocation policies exclude new recruits from receiving other allowances, such as travel and accommodation expenses.
▪ White also will continue to receive a transportation allowance from the transit agency, totaling $ 7, 200.
▪ A councillor may give written notice to his council that he wishes to receive a financial loss allowance instead of an attendance allowance.
▪ The new president will receive an unspecified allowance for business and entertainment expenses, as well as 22 days vacation.
▪ Single employees who do not own property receive an allowance at a lower rate, paid for just one year.
▪ I only receive a severe disability allowance and finding two lots of money for dentists care will be difficulty.
▪ The lessor receives capital allowances against tax. 2.
▪ Except for an entitlement to a police car and driver when attending official functions, they receive no formal allowances.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
subsistence allowance/payment etc
▪ He would also have received a subsistence allowance from his employers.
▪ Parish authorities generally were constantly reviewing their ideas about what constituted a minimum acceptable subsistence payment during this period.
▪ They consist of: £29 a day subsistence allowance to cover meals, taxis and other incidentals.
▪ They recommended that volunteers receive subsistence payments for child minding and other special needs.
▪ To receive their full daily subsistence allowances, MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.
▪ Travelling and subsistence allowances are not subject to tax.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A glass of orange juice provides the recommended daily allowance of Vitamin C.
▪ Does your mom give you a clothing allowance?
▪ I think my yearly allowance is about three hundred, you know, so I'm rapidly running out.
▪ In exchange for looking after the children, Annie has all her meals paid for and receives a small monthly allowance.
▪ Mom gave us kids a weekly allowance if we kept our rooms clean.
▪ Some students have an allowance from their parents.
▪ The baggage allowance is 75 pounds per person.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A large boost to their independent solvency has been the Friday night allowance.
▪ The young Moynihan urged enactment of a scheme called child or family allowances.
▪ These are child benefits, industrial injuries and death benefits, certain invalidity benefits, and attendance and mobility allowances.
▪ They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money.
▪ While imports required a royal allowance to buy and support, this car has always been priced at more affordable levels.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
allowance

Tolerance \Tol"er*ance\, n. [L. tolerantia: cf. F. tol['e]rance.]

  1. The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.

    Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place, shaking, to show his tolerance.
    --Bacon.

  2. The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.

  3. (Med.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.

  4. (Forestry) Capability of growth in more or less shade.

  5. the allowed amount of variation from the standard or from exact conformity to the specified dimensions, weight, hardness, voltage etc., in various mechanical or electrical devices or operations; -- caklled also allowance specif.: (Coinage) The amount which coins, either singly or in lots, are legally allowed to vary above or below the standard of weight or fineness.

  6. (Biochemistry) the capacity to resist the deleterious action of a chemical agent normally harmful to the organism; as, the acquired tolerance of bacteria to anitbiotics.

  7. (Immunology) the acquired inability to respond with an immune reaction to an antigen to which the organism normally responds; -- called also immunotolerance, immunological tolerance, or immune tolerance. Such tolerance may be induced by exposing an animal to the antigen at a very early stage of life, prior to maturation of the immune system, or, in adults, by exposing the animal to repeated low doses of a weak protein antigen ( low-zone tolerance), or to a large amount of an antigen ( high-zone tolerance).

    Tolerance of the mint. (Coinage) Same as Remedy of the mint. See under Remedy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
allowance

late 14c., "praise" (a sense now obsolete), from Old French aloance "allowance, granting, allocation," from alouer (see allow). Sense of "a sum alloted to meet expenses" is from c.1400. In accounts, meaning "a sum placed to one's credit" is attested from 1520s. To make allowances is literally to add or deduct a sum from someone's account for some special circumstance. Figurative use of the phrase is attested from 1670s.

Wiktionary
allowance

n. 1 The act of allowing, granting, concede, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. 2 acknowledgment. 3 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. 4 abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. 5 (context commerce English) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. 6 A child's allowance; pocket money. 7 (context minting English) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law. 8 (context obsolete English) approval; approbation 9 (context obsolete English) license; indulgence vb. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

WordNet
allowance
  1. 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"

  2. a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses

  3. an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit" [syn: adjustment]

  4. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits [syn: leeway, margin, tolerance]

  5. a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets [syn: valuation reserve, valuation account, allowance account]

  6. the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom"

  7. v. put on a fixed allowance, as of food

Wikipedia
Allowance

Allowance may refer to:

  • Allowance (money)
  • Allowances in accounting, see Accounts receivable
  • Personal allowance in the United Kingdom's taxing system
  • Jobseeker's Allowance, a term for unemployment benefit in the United Kingdom
  • EU Allowances
  • Allowance (engineering)
  • Allowance race, a type of horse race
  • In grocery retail, “allowances” refers to discounts given to retailers in exchange for either favorable placement of a product in their stores, or sometimes even the initial or continued stocking of a product.
  • Tradable allowance
  • Baggage allowance on airlines
  • Decorative Allowance in real estate
  • Seam allowance in stitching
Allowance (money)

An allowance is an amount of money given or allotted usually at regular intervals for a specific purpose. In the context of children, parents may provide an allowance ( British English: pocket money]) to their child for their miscellaneous personal spending. In the construction industry it may be an amount allocated to a specific item of work as part of an overall contract.

The person providing the allowance is usually trying to control how or when money is spent by the recipient so that it meets the aims of the person providing the money. For example, an allowance by a parent might be motivated to teach the child money management and may be unconditional or be tied to completion of chores or achievement of specific grades.

The person supplying the allowance usually specifies the purpose and may put controls in place to make sure that the money is spent for that purpose only. For example, a company employee may be given an allowance or per diem to provide for meals and travel when working away from home and may then be required to provide receipts as proof. Or they are provided with specific non-money tokens or vouchers that can be used only for a specific purpose such as a meal voucher.

Allowance (engineering)

In engineering and machining, an allowance is a planned deviation between an actual dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension, or between an intermediate-stage dimension and an intended final dimension. The unifying abstract concept is that a certain amount of difference allows for some known factor of compensation or interference. For example, an area of excess metal may be left because it is needed to complete subsequent machining. Common cases are listed below. An allowance, which is a planned deviation from an ideal, is contrasted with a tolerance, which accounts for expected but unplanned deviations.

Allowance is basically the size difference between components that work together. Allowance between parts that are assembled is very important. For example, the axle of a car has to be supported in a bearing otherwise it will fall to the ground. If there was no gap between the axle and the bearing then there would be a lot of friction and it would be difficult to get the car to move. If there was too much of a gap then the axle would be jumping around in the bearing. It is important to get the Allowance between the axle and the bearing correct so that the axle rotates smoothly and easily without judder.

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Usage examples of "allowance".

The Isle of Thanet, a secure and fertile district, was allotted for the residence of these German auxiliaries, and they were supplied, according to the treaty, with a plentiful allowance of clothing and provisions.

Surely if he had ever seen that wonderful artistry which she knew was hers, witnessed the half-crazy enthusiasm with which her audience received her, he would make allowance, judge her a little less harshly for what was, after all, a very natural assumption on the part of a stage favourite.

To add to their discomfort some of the water casks were stove, so that the crew were placed on short allowance until they were relieved by a barkentine named, The Girl of the Period.

He had not begrudged allocating funds from the living expenses allowance to the group home, knowing that a portion of it was handed on to Marta for her own discretion.

Specific Gravity Tables -- Percentage Tare Tables -- Petroleum Tables -- Paraffine and Benzoline Calculations -- Customary Drafts -- Tables for Calculating Allowance for Dirt, Water, etc.

Yet, making allowance for editorial blatancy, they may contain a germ of bitter truth.

Much allowance is to be made for a man who is staggering under the mental shock of defeat and the physical exertions which Buller had endured.

The New York publishing scene makes almost no allowance for bringing gifted European and Asian genre writers to the attention of the American reading public and the monolingual status of most of us Americans will keep us ignorant of the existence of these writers.

NASA has overspent its allowance three times in the past two years and crawled back to the President with its tail between its legs and asked for more money to fix its mistakes.

Discretionary accounts, reimbursed expenses, overstated of course- a percentage of our expense allowance salted away, laundered clean, invested in the market.

Our desire is that we may have them of twelve years old and upward, with allowance of L3 apiece for their trans portation, and 40s.

For, while the moat at the great gate held only its usual allowance of water, by means of the new dam they had constructed, that part of the moat near the postern was level full.

And it is needless to say that experience shows, even among well-informed and accurate reasoners, how large an allowance must thus be made for personal equations.

Center the reticle his sternum, move it six inches right: windage allowance.

I said I owned it secretly because I had saved it in the course of two years from my allowance of five rubles a month.