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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
allow
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a constitution allows sth
▪ The Constitution allows police to seize property used in a crime.
a loophole allows/enables sth
▪ Security loopholes allowed the terrorists to plant the bombs unnoticed.
allow a maximum
▪ To lose weight, allow yourself only 1,500 calories per day.
allow (sb) entry (also grant (sb) entryformal) (= let someone enter a place)
▪ Citizens of most EU countries are allowed automatic entry into Britain.
legislation allows sth
▪ It was a huge change when Russia passed legislation to allow the sale of private property.
uphold/allow an appeal (=give permission for a decision to be changed)
▪ Judge Gabriel Hutton upheld Smith's appeal against a £250 fine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The closures will also allow £483,000 extra to be spent on the region's remaining ten centres.
▪ Congress also allows the Department of Transportation to reference additional but unauthorized amounts in full-funding agreements.
▪ However, as noted above, the scheme also allows for two kinds of heterogeneity.
▪ It also allowed and even encouraged employers to threaten workers who want to organize.
▪ This extra width would also allow for right hand turning lanes to be incorporated at the junctions on to adjacent military land.
▪ It also allows employees to offer testimonials on which products and services are good, Phillips said.
▪ They also allowed a reconsideration of the duke's earlier endowment, some of which was surrendered.
▪ Each individual in a household is also allowed a personal exemption of $ 2000.
never
▪ She would never allow him a reason to pity her again, to hold her in contempt.
▪ Despite his feelings of insecurity, Joe never allowed himself to be intimidated by the other children.
▪ After the Ken Noakes episode in her life, she had never allowed anyone to come so close to her.
▪ Control the circumstances, never allow circumstances to control you.
▪ We should never allow ourselves to be swayed by our feelings.
▪ My parents never allowed me to go anywhere.
▪ But his message was lost on a people enjoying an economic and political freedom that he had never allowed them.
▪ However the planners never allowed it to open and the building is set to be demolished within the next few weeks.
■ NOUN
access
▪ With no words spoken the crowd parted before the old man, allowing him immediate access to the bar.
▪ Companies should allow reasonable access to documents and information.
▪ Reporters have not been allowed access to Chi Ma Wan or any of the other detention centres.
▪ The project could include a pedestrian bridge over Valley Parkway that would allow easy access to the arts center and City Hall.
▪ This allows Quatro Pro to access directly data from third-party databases.
▪ The extra plants at the surface allow her access to the top of the water to take air.
▪ We should be allowed unrestricted access to outside money sources.
▪ It was among the last countries in the region to allow access to the Internet.
appeal
▪ I agree with the reasons given for allowing the appeal.
▪ The High Court allowed the taxpayer's appeal and the Crown was given leave to appeal.
▪ To that extent I would allow these appeals.
▪ Accordingly, I allow the appeal and set aside the order.
▪ Held, allowing the appeal, but ordering a retrial.
▪ I agree with it and, for the reasons given him, I, too, would allow the appeal.
▪ For these reasons I would allow these appeals.
law
▪ Texas state law does not allow for the substitution of an independent candidate once he has won a spot on the ballot.
▪ Credit unions are by law not allowed to charge more than 12.6 percent interest on loans to their members.
▪ Federal law allows plaintiffs to collect up to $ 100, 000 per infringement.
▪ The Volkskammer on Jan. 11-12 gave a first reading to a law allowing an alternative of 18 months' civilian service.
▪ Arizona law allows rattlesnake hunters to catch a maximum of four snakes per day in each of the four major varieties.
▪ Algebraic laws alone only allow us to prove one occam program equal to another.
▪ However, Clinton has disregarded the debt ceiling law, allowing the nation to spiral further into debt.
system
▪ The government ration card system allows an urban family to buy a case of imported beer for about 400 Kwanza.
▪ Louis County Police developed a system that allows officers to call in their reports, rather than write them up.
▪ There should be a system allowing users to backtrack over previous links.
▪ The move follows complaints from television companies about the delay caused by the present system that allows three false starts.
▪ The state is passive in the productive system, allowing private actors to operate in a relatively unconstrained manner.
■ VERB
refuse
▪ The manager was refusing to allow the Committee to use the hall for nothing.
▪ The civil trial provided a more subdued sequel, since Fujisaki refused to allow television cameras into his courtroom.
▪ Non-classical literature is an unpleasant, disquieting literature which refuses to allow the sophisms of bourgeois complacency to go unchallenged.
▪ The same kind of yelping small-mindedness was shown when Thatcher refused to allow Roy Jenkins to take part in the Cenotaph service.
▪ Individually and collectively, they refuse to allow us to be foreigners through our worst pain.
▪ Say that if he refused to allow us to marry you would even run away with me?
▪ In fact, a federal bankruptcy court in 1994 refused to allow asbestos claims to go forward against Jim Walter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our apartment complex does not allow pets.
▪ Paul's bank now allows him £35 a week, and Geoff can withdraw no more than £40.
▪ The manager doesn't allow children in the bar.
▪ Under federal law, Indian nations are allowed to operate casinos on their reservations, with the state's permission.
▪ We do not allow eating in the classrooms.
▪ We do not allow people to smoke anywhere in the building.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At least one of the new filter starting bacteria mixes claims to allow you to start your tank fully stocked.
▪ He knows the Treasury does not allow departments to earmark tax revenues.
▪ He spent more than ten days in the neurology unit at Glasgow's Southern General before being allowed home.
▪ Most colleges will allow students to change their subject choices in the early weeks of an academic session.
▪ She has been allowed out now to visit her family because she has just married off her only daughter.
▪ We allow visitor play on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allow

Allow \Al*low"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Allowing.] [OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F. allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. Allocate, Laud.]

  1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [Obs. or Archaic]

    Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.
    --Luke xi. 48.

    We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.
    --Fuller.

  2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.]

    How allow you the model of these clothes?
    --Massinger.

  3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.]

    Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power.
    --Shak.

  4. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.

    He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year.
    --Macaulay.

  5. To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.

    I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible.
    --Thackeray.

  6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

  7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

    Syn: To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate. See Permit.

Allow

Allow \Al*low"\, v. i. To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

Allowing still for the different ways of making it.
--Addison.

To allow of, to permit; to admit.
--Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
allow

early 14c., allouen, "to commend, praise; approve of, be pleased with; appreciate the value of;" also, "take into account or give credit for," also, in law and philosophy, "recognize, admit as valid" (a privilege, an excuse, a statement, etc.). From late 14c. as "sanction or permit; condone;" in business use from early 15c.\n

\nThe Middle English word is from Anglo-French alouer, Old French aloer, alloiier (13c.) "allot, apportion, bestow, assign," from Latin allocare (see allocate). This word in Old French was confused and ultimately merged with aloer; alloer "to praise, commend," from Latin allaudare, adlaudare, compound of ad- "to" (see ad-) + laudare "to praise" (see laud). From the first word came the sense preserved in allowance as "money granted;" from the second came its meaning "permission based on approval."\n\nBetween the two primary significations there naturally arose a variety of uses blending them in the general idea of assign with approval, grant, concede a thing claimed or urged, admit a thing offered, permit, etc., etc. [OED].\n\nRelated: Allowed; allowing.

Wiktionary
allow

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 2 (context transitive English) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 3 (context transitive English) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 4 (context transitive English) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 5 To not bar or obstruct.

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WordNet
allow

  1. v. make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off" [syn: let, permit] [ant: prevent]

  2. consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" [syn: permit, let, countenance] [ant: forbid, forbid]

  3. let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison" [syn: grant] [ant: deny]

  4. give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research" [syn: appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve]

  5. make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway" [syn: leave, allow for, provide]

  6. allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something; "I allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash" [syn: take into account]

  7. afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations" [syn: admit]

  8. allow the other (baseball) team to score; "give up a run" [syn: give up]

  9. grant as a discount or in exchange; "The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera"

  10. allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital" [syn: permit, tolerate]

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Usage examples of "allow".

New Riviera was entirely too accommodating to imported species to allow anything out into the wild without official approval, where it would like as not reproduce and thrive like mad.

Kearney had to stand aside to allow the baritone and his accompanist to pass up to the platform.

Mrs Kearney had to stand aside to allow the baritone and his accompanist to pass up to the platform.

It is true, the prices assigned by the assize of Richard were meant as a standard for the accompts of sheriffs and escheators and as considerable profits were allowed to these ministers, we may naturally suppose that the common value of cattle was somewhat higher: yet still, so great a difference between the prices of corn and cattle as that of four to one, compared to the present rates, affords important reflections concerning the very different state of industry and tillage in the two periods.

If, therefore, he were not allowed to think in accord with the love in his will, which is hereditarily implanted in him, that love would remain shut in and never be seen by him.

In its letter the SEC said it would allow Enron to use mark-to-market accounting beginning in January 1992.

Levitt had warned companies not to abuse the practice that allowed them to avoid reporting accounting errors that affect less than a defined percentage of income.

They were reported to be aggressively engaged in guerilla warfare against the enemy in the provinces of Shantung, Hopei, Shansi and north Kiangsu, although direct evidence was lacking because no foreigner accredited to Chungking was allowed to visit the area north of the quarantine line.

It also prefers the savor of those who have allowed their receptor planes to tarnish with succulent trace elements, spewed up by the hot accretion disk below.

The operation consists in dividing the hymen by a crucial incision, thus allowing the accumulated fluid to be discharged, after which the vagina is cleansed by syringing it with warm water.

The acetylcholine formed by the nerve cannot be allowed to remain in being for long, because there would be no repolarization while it is present.

It was wider than an urban walkway, so she could easily have gone upright, but her acrophobia refused to allow her to let go with her hands.

Bono, I value your advice very highly, and still more highly the kindly feelings which prompt you, but you must allow me to follow my own opinion in this case.

This was to allow control rooms of affiliate stations which had not been broadcasting the network program to interrupt their local programming and take the special bulletin.

Circumnutation was observed in the above specified cases, either by means of extremely fine filaments of glass affixed to the radicles in the manner previously described, or by their being allowed to grow downwards over inclined smoked glassplates, on which they left their tracks.