{ "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "\u0259\u02c8la\u028a\u0259ns" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/allowance.ogg" }, { "lang": "audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/allowance.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance.\nMorphologically allow + -ance." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting\n1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; , \u201cThe Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight\u201d, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance" }, { "mean": "Acknowledgment.\nc. 1599\u20131602 (date written), William Shakespeare, \u201cThe Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke\u201d, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others." }, { "mean": "An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose\nher meagre allowance of food or drink\nBeing a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.\n1847 January \u2013 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair\u00a0, London: Bradbury and Evans\u00a0, published 1848, \u2192OCLC:Some persons averred that Sir Pitt Crawley gave his brother a handsome allowance." }, { "mean": "Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances\nto make allowance for his naivety\n1849\u20131861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, \u2192OCLC:After making the largest allowance for fraud." }, { "mean": "(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.\nTare and tret are examples of allowance." }, { "mean": "(horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.\nAntonym: penalty\nOn the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb." }, { "mean": "A child's allowance; pocket money.\nShe gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month." }, { "mean": "(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." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Approval; approbation.\n1807, George Crabbe, The Parish Register: gave allowance where he needed none" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) License; indulgence.\n1695, John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity\nthis Allowance for their Transgressions" }, { "mean": "(engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).\nThe captain was obliged to allowance his crew." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.\nOur provisions were allowanced." } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "\u201callowance\u201d, inWebster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. G. C. Merriam, 1913, \u2192OCLC.\n\n\n\n\n -->\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=allowanceoldid=73670978\"\n\t\tCategories: English terms inherited from Middle EnglishEnglish terms derived from Middle EnglishEnglish terms derived from Old FrenchEnglish terms with audio linksEnglish 3-syllable wordsEnglish terms with IPA pronunciationEnglish lemmasEnglish nounsEnglish uncountable nounsEnglish countable nounsEnglish terms with quotationsEnglish terms with usage examplesen:Horse racingEnglish terms with obsolete sensesen:EngineeringEnglish verbsEnglish transitive verbsen:MoneyHidden categories: Quotation templates to be cleanedRequests for transliteration of Mandarin termsRequests for review of Irish translations\n\t\n\n\n\n\tNavigation menu\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tPersonal tools\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tNot logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog in\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tNamespaces\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tEntryDiscussion\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tEnglish\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tViews\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tReadEditHistory\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tMore\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\tSearch\n\t\n\t\t
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