allowance
allowance is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 7 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.
- 2.Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.
- 3.License; indulgence. [Obs.] Locke.
- 4.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. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.
- 5.Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.
- 6.(com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
- 7.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abate
- abatement
- administer
- administration
- agio
- allocate
- allocation
- allot
- allotment
- allow
- and
- appoint
- appointment
- apportion
- apportionment
- appropriate
- appropriation
- assign
- assignment
- backwardation
- bargain
- bate
- below
- billet
- business
- carve
- cast
- come
- concession
- consignment
- contango
- contingent
- coupon
- deal
- depreciation
- detail
- discount
- dispensation
- dispense
- distribute
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is allowance.
- What is the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak called?
- What is acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak called?
- What is abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay called?
- What is (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret called?
- What is 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 called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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