allowance
Meaning of allowance
noun
- the amount of something that is permitted, especially within a set of regulations or for a specified purpose.
your baggage allowance
- a sum of money paid regularly to a person to meet needs or expenses.
the elderly receive a heating allowance every winter
- tolerance.
the allowance of differing opinions
- give (someone) a sum of money as an allowance.
I have made up my mind to allowance him
late Middle English: from Old French alouance, from alouer (see allow).
Information about allowance
- The plural form of allowance is: allowances.
- Languages in which allowance is used:
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Hyphenation of allowance
al-lowance
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- allowance is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
allowance synonyms
Meaning adjustment:
Meaning leeway:
Meaning an amount of a resource assigned to a particular recipient:
Meaning an amount allotted to a person:
Meaning a fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute:
Meaning a part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people, or to which a number of people contribute:
Meaning a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime:
Meaning a sum of money given by a government or other organization for a particular purpose:
Meaning a point or level beyond which something does not or may not extend or pass:
Meaning a part of a whole:
Meaning a portion of food served to one person at one time:
Meaning a thin, broad piece of food, such as bread, meat, or cake, cut from a larger portion:
Meaning a particular group or set of people or things:
Meaning something given as a reward or in recompense for something done:
Meaning a sum of money sent in payment or as a gift:
Meaning a gift or payment to a common fund or collection:
Meaning careful thought, typically over a period of time:
Meaning a quantity of financial or other material aid given to a person or organization:
Meaning a grant or contribution of money:
Meaning financial support that a person is ordered by a court to give to their spouse during separation or following divorce:
Meaning the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself, especially at a minimal level:
Meaning an advantage or profit gained from something:
Meaning a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or as expenses to a clergyman, teacher, or public official:
Meaning a regular payment made by the state to people of or above the official retirement age and to some widows and disabled people:
Meaning a fixed sum of money paid to someone each year, typically for the rest of their life:
Meaning food, clothes, and other essentials for living:
Meaning the process of keeping something in good condition:
Meaning the cost incurred in or required for something:
Translation of allowance
- Spanish: subsidio
- French: allocation
- Italian: indennità
- Portuguese: descontos
Words that rhyme with allowance
ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance
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