allowance

CEFRB2

/əˈlaʊəns/

noun

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noun
An amount of money or something given regularly or for a purpose.
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noun
Extra detail
An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.

Examples

I'm going to give you a year's worth of allowance all at once.
You must make allowance for his lack of experience.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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noun

Extra meanings

Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person.
Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.

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In context

Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.
She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
An allowance of $20 a day

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you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance
1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [...
[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.
1986, Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Hazards in reuse of disposable dialysis devices: staff report to the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 272
The physical background of foaming of the complex fermentation liquids is not well understood. Proteins do play a major role, but all other components can also be important. Foaming is a problem, but its relation to mass transfer leads to the allowance of a certain amount of foam on top of the fermenter. For foam control a number of methods are available. Most widely used are the antifoam liquids and the centrifugal separator. The latter one should be equipped with a safety antifoam dosage device also and is less attractive for large-scale applications.
1991, Klaas van't Riet, Johannes Tramper, Basic Bioreactor Design, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 286
The colossal stupidity of the one-party strategy has had three disastrous effects: the nurturance of right-wing Republican homophobes, the weakening and silencing of pro-gay, progressive Republicans, and the allowance of lacklustrer^([sic]), liberal Democrats to exploit us at their will and ignore us at their convenience.
1991 February 4, David Lafontaine, Patrick Ward, “Why Our Future Is In The GOP”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 5
The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]

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Origin

noun

From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance. Morphologically allow + -ance.

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Every week, the parents give their son a small blank— for doing chores.

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noun

Every week, the parents give their son a small blank for doing chores.