Allowance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALLOWANCE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make an allowance to
• give (someone) a sum of money as an allowance
• put on a fixed allowance, as of food
NOUN:
• something allowed, esp. a sum of money
• the amount of something that is permitted, especially within a set of regulations or for a specified purpose
• an amount of money that can be earned or received free of tax
• a deduction in the weight that a horse is required to carry in a race.
• a sum of money paid regularly to a person to meet needs or expenses
• a small amount of money given regularly to a child by its parents.
• tolerance
• amount of money given at regular intervals
• Approval; approbation.
• The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
• Acknowledgment.
• License; indulgence.
• 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.
• Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
• A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
• 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.
• an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period)
• a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
• an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
• a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
• a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company\'s assets
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement or bounty or for expenses; a sum regularly provided for personal or household expenses; a fixed or available amount; a reduction from a list price or stated price

Words related to ALLOWANCE

allowanced16 allowances15 allowancing17

Words that contain ALLOWANCE

allowanced16 allowances15 disallowance18 disallowances19

How to use ALLOWANCE in a sentence

• Whatever his allowance might be, he wished to spend more.
• Had the Executive been in error, it is entitled to censure, making a just allowance for the motive which guided it.
• But, making every allowance for the difficulty of the task which Mrs.
• He formerly, in accordance with the prevalent custom, gave his people a weekly allowance of rum, and this was regarded as essential to their health and effectiveness.
• But we are now compelled to throw them together in much more haste than we could wish, for which, we trust, allowance will be made.
• I was then once more in possession of some ten thousand francs, without reckoning my allowance.
• In any case, I wish you to accept an allowance of which my lawyers will advise you, and if you will call upon me when you are in town I shall be glad to make your acquaintance.
• Besides, some allowance is surely to be made for the solitary, sedentary life that he leads.
• Indeed, the bulk of his allowance was wasted during the trips he made to town after quarter-days.
• Whitford at night you had the money from me as part of my allowance to you for pocket-money.
• But the next horse I tried was comparatively blameless, so I bought him, and at the end of the first month sent in a claim to the Law Department for the usual allowance.
• This allowance had for some time past been stopped, and he was coming up in person to investigate the why and wherefore.
• We feel, of course, that we have a perfect right to do as we please with our allowance checks.
• Jack had a handsome allowance, which he spent almost entirely upon the girl he loved.
• That, with what she had not spent from her ridiculously big allowance, seemed a fortune.
• It is thought that half the usual amount of grain fed will produce equal results when fed with alfalfa, to those obtained from feeding a full allowance of grain in its absence.
• The compensation of our legislators is five dollars per day, with an allowance of ten cents per mile going to and returning from the place of meeting.
• They adored the Goddess of Reason, who would appear, even when the fullest allowance has been made for their many virtues, to be the deity who had least smiled upon them.
• In that connection, when I hand him his next allowance of pocket money, I shall keep out four dollars and hand him the book in place thereof.
• Julia, with an unlimited allowance, arrived two days early and was attacked with a fever for settling.
• I refused to accept the allowance that you offered to me.
• I make every allowance, I hope, for a lady in her melancholy situation.

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