allowance

Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance

[Mr. Michie] Q[uestion]. Didn't Dr. Carter, Director of the OHTA [Office of Health Technology Assessment], and Martin Erlichman, OHTA scientific analyst assigned to this assessment, express to you concerns about 60 days being unreasonable as far as timeframe was concerned for this assessment? [Mr. Marshall] A[nswer]. There was some discussion about that, but that occurred some time later when we made the decision to put a notice in the Federal Register. We—when we do an assessment, we put a notice in the Federal Register and then that requires the allowance of a certain amount of time for public comment.

Acknowledgment.

The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.

An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.

her meagre allowance of food or drink

Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.

An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.

She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

Some persons averred that Sir Pitt Crawley gave his brother a handsome allowance.

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.

to make allowance for his naivety

After making the largest allowance for fraud.

To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).

The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.

To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

Our provisions were allowanced.