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allowable
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Word definitions for allowable in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN level ▪ Release from the reservoir are controlled to keep copper levels downstream at allowable levels. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Companies could select among the various allowable depreciation methods and depreciate ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. deductible according to the tax laws deserving to be allowed or considered possible to allow; "a degree of freedom allowable among friends" [syn: permitted ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allowable \Al*low"a*ble\, a. [F. allouable.] Praiseworthy; laudable. [Obs.] --Hacket. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French allouable , from allouer (see allow ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable. 2 intellectual admissible; valid; probable. 3 Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something. 4 permissible; tolerable; legitimate. 5 (context obsolete English) praiseworthy.
Usage examples of allowable.
The rawness of the day made it allowable for her to put on her musquash coat even to go as far as the gate and give Randall his orders.
His enemies were ready enough to allow his military talents, but they wished to attribute the first success of his not very deep policy to a marvellous duplicity, apparently considered by them the more wicked as possessed by a parvenu emperor, and far removed, in a moral point of view, from the statecraft so allowable in an ancient monarchy.
With Mila, Solanka had allowed himself to sink toward the sickly allure of the unmentionable, the unallowed, whereas when Neela wrapped herself around him the opposite was true, everything became mentionable and was mentioned, everything was allowable and allowed.
Nobody as yet had got up the nerve to point out to him that private battlecraft definitely were not allowable in the Manon System.
The same is true of lusts of evil and evil deeds with those who make evils allowable in spirit.
In works of human art and contrivance, it is allowable to advance from the effect to the cause, and returning back from the cause, to form new inferences concerning the effect, and examine the alterations, which it has probably undergone, or may still undergo.
Even when I was in Russia it was not allowable to doubt the infallibility of a ukase, and to do so was, equivalent to high treason.
He seems to have thought that lying was allowable in a romance, but he has abused the privilege.
Another lady then asked her if it was allowable to believe the history of the apple to be symbolical.
It was allowable to play in her house, as the park is under the jurisdiction of the Crown.
And also for that many points of the same are such as by the laws of the realm at this present are not allowable.
Since the deck was made of teakwood he had imported as part of his allowable weight as Buenos Aires captain, he was particularly happy to see it protected from Threadscore.
Heller apparently had a lease line to Ochokeechokee and he went into a lot of chatter about some regulation they'd come up against down there about the allowable heights of stacks in swamps.
Prohibited practices include: price gouging above government-mandated, maximum allowable market prices for agricultural products.
Power team's already brought the nuke on-line, just in case solar cell degradation exceeds allowable.