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al⋅low⋅ance

  [uh-lou-uhns] noun, verb, -anced, -anc⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the act of allowing.
2. an amount or share allotted or granted.
3. a sum of money allotted or granted for a particular purpose, as for expenses: Her allowance for the business trip was $200.
4. a sum of money allotted or granted to a person on a regular basis, as for personal or general living expenses: The art student lived on an allowance of $300 a month. When I was in first grade, my parents gave me an allowance of 50 cents a week.
5. an addition or deduction based on an extenuating or qualifying circumstance: an allowance for profit; an allowance for depreciation.
6. acknowledgment; concession: the allowance of a claim.
7. sanction; tolerance: the allowance of slavery.
8. Machinery. a prescribed difference in dimensions of two closely fitting mating parts with regard to minimum clearance or maximum interference. Compare tolerance (def. 6a).
9. Coining. tolerance (def. 7).
–verb (used with object)
10. to place on a fixed allowance, as of food or drink.
11. to allocate (supplies, rations, etc.) in fixed or regular amounts.
—Idiom
12. make allowance or allowances (for),
a. to take mitigating factors or circumstances into consideration.
b. to pardon; excuse.
c. to reserve time, money, etc.; allow for: Make allowance for souvenirs on the return trip.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME alouance < MF. See allow, -ance

Synonyms:
2. allotment. 4. stipend. 7. permission, authorization, approval, sufferance.

tol⋅er⋅ance

  [tol-er-uhns]
–noun
1. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
2. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own.
3. interest in and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one's own; a liberal, undogmatic viewpoint.
4. the act or capacity of enduring; endurance: My tolerance of noise is limited.
5. Medicine/Medical, Immunology.
a. the power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug, poison, etc.: a tolerance to antibiotics.
b. the lack of or low levels of immune response to transplanted tissue or other foreign substance that is normally immunogenic.
6. Machinery.
a. the permissible range of variation in a dimension of an object. Compare allowance (def. 8).
b. the permissible variation of an object or objects in some characteristic such as hardness, weight, or quantity.
7. Also called allowance. Coining. a permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coin, owing to the difficulty of securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L tolerantia. See tolerant, -ance

Synonyms:
1, 2. patience, sufferance, forbearance; liberality, impartiality, open-mindedness. Tolerance, toleration agree in allowing the right of something that one does not approve. Tolerance suggests a liberal spirit toward the views and actions of others: tolerance toward religious minorities. Toleration implies the allowance or sufferance of conduct with which one is not in accord: toleration of graft.
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al·low·ance   (ə-lou'əns)   
n.  
  1. The act of allowing.
  2. An amount that is allowed or granted: consumed my weekly allowance of two eggs.
  3. Something, such as money, given at regular intervals or for a specific purpose: a travel allowance that covers hotel bills.
  4. A price reduction, especially one granted in exchange for used merchandise: The dealer gave us an allowance on our old car.
  5. A consideration for possibilities or modifying circumstances: an allowance for breakage; made allowances for rush-hour traffic in estimating travel time.
  6. An allowed difference in dimension of closely mating machine parts.
tr.v.   al·low·anced, al·low·anc·ing, al·low·anc·es
  1. To put on a fixed allowance: cut expenses by strictly allowancing the sales representatives.
  2. To dispense in fixed quantities; ration.
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Allowance

Al*low"ance\, n. [OF. alouance.]

1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] --Crabbe.

2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --Shak.

3. Acknowledgment.

The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak.

4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] --Locke.

5. 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.

I can give the boy a handsome allowance. --Thackeray.

6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

After making the largest allowance for fraud. --Macaulay.

7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

Allowance

Al*low"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing.] [See Allowance, n.] To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.
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Language Translation for : allowance
Spanish: paga, asignación, subsidio,
German: die finanzielle Zuwendung,
Japanese: 小遣い
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Main Entry: al·low·ance
Pronunciation: &-'lau-&ns
Function: noun
1 : an allotted share: as a : a sum granted as a reimbursement or payment for expenses allowance to support the deceased's family> allowance> b : a sum granted as a reduction or increase allowance for depreciation>
2 : an act of allowing <allowance of a deduction>
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allowance

see make allowance.

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