Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: allowance
IPA transcription: [əl'aʊəns]
noun meaning of the word
  • 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.