Crossword clues for allowance
allowance
- Stipend
- Minor payment
- An amount allowed or granted (as during a given period)
- The act of allowing
- A reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
- Allowing freedom to move within limits
- A permissible difference
- A sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
- An amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
- Money granted for a purpose
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tolerance \Tol"er*ance\, n. [L. tolerantia: cf. F. tol['e]rance.]
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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. The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.
(Med.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.
(Forestry) Capability of growth in more or less shade.
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.
(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.
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(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
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
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
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"
a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit" [syn: adjustment]
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits [syn: leeway, margin, tolerance]
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]
the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom"
v. put on a fixed allowance, as of food
Wikipedia
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
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.
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.