Wiktionary
vb. To take into account when making plans.
WordNet
v. 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, provide]
Usage examples of "allow for".
For the rest of the day, the usual Lenten dietary restrictions were also relaxed to allow for moderate feasting in the archbishops refectory that night, though Kelson and his companions chose to eat sparingly, anyway.
For the rest of the day, the usual Lenten dietary restrictions were also relaxed to allow for moderate feasting in the archbishop's refectory that night, though Kelson and his companions chose to eat sparingly, anyway.
Here he pur\-\expndtw-3 chased riding clothes - soft leather boots, dark woollen \expndtw-8 troos, two thick white shirts and a leather topcoat, double-\expndtw0 shouldered and vented at the ribs to allow for ease of \expndtw-10 movement.
Here he purchased riding clothes - soft leather boots, dark woollen troos, two thick white shirts and a leather topcoat, double-shouldered and vented at the ribs to allow for ease of movement.
The ambiguities troubled him, but any good regulation should have some just to allow for local flexibility.
But if the flier follows his own judgment based on experience in landing on a flying field, he is certain to crash into the stern of the ship-or, if he knows this and tries to allow for it, he will fly too high and miss the rope.
Monopolies allow for no bargains, nor do they have to fuss too much about quality because we have no alternative to what they offer.
All I had to do was to dig the records of the preliminary survey of Connie out of the microfilms and write up similar schedules for Elysia, modified to allow for our loss of personnel.
I don't know what to do, so I put my arms around her too, leaning forward slightly to allow for the volume of the puff-ball skirt, one hand on the grey satin, and one on her back, her beautiful back, just where the flesh swells out over the top of the satin, and she whispers in my ear - 'you are such a lovely man' - and I think I'm going to cry again, not because I am such a lovely man, but because I'm such a disgusting, fucking stupid, fucking twat, so I squeeze my eyes tight shut and we stay like that for a little while.