Synonyms:
allowance
Meaning: an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period); "travel allowance"; "my weekly allowance of two eggs"; "a child's allowance should not be too generous"
Synonyms:
allowance
Meaning: a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
Synonyms:
allowance, adjustment
Meaning: an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"
Synonyms:
allowance, leeway, margin, tolerance
Meaning: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
allowance
Meaning: put on a fixed allowance, as of food
Usage examples
The shortage is a full day's allowance.
I was too hard on you--I ought to have made more allowance.
They had been prepared to forgive, to endure, to make every allowance.
You may spend your monthly allowance as an agent of iniquity or of truth.
The two ladies suspected the truth now and they, too, cut down their allowance.
Fast him for twenty-four hours; after which, keep him on half his ordinary allowance.
Delicate persons should not eat the apricot uncooked, without a liberal allowance of powdered sugar.
A liberal allowance was granted to her, and a becoming household was established for her private use.
The slave-owner, who controls his slaves, may give a double allowance of brandy to him who does double work.
We can't risk opening out our food again, and as cook at present I am serving something under full allowance.