allowance

/əˈlaʊɪns/ noun, verb

Forms allowances allowancing allowanced allowaunce

1. noun Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
2. noun Acknowledgment.
3. noun 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”
4. noun Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person. “She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.”
5. noun Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances. “to make allowance for his naivety”
6. noun (commerce) A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country. “Minus the allowance, the total came to thirteen tons.”
7. noun (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry. “On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.”
8. noun (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
9. verb (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink). “The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.”
10. verb (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity. “Our provisions were allowanced.”

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “allowance”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details