Word: allowance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin laus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin laudō Latin allaudō Old French aloer ▲ Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *stel-der. Proto-Italic *stlokos? Old Latin stlocus Latin locus ▲ Latin -ō Latin locō Latin allocō Old French aloer Old French alouer Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Old French -ance Old French alouancebor. Middle English allouance English allowance From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance. Morphologically allow + -ance. Pronunciation: /əˈlaʊəns/, /əˈlaʊɪns/ 1. Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance Example: [Mr. Michie] Q[uestion]. Didn't Dr. Carter, Director of the OHTA [Office of Health Technology Assessment], and Martin Erlichman, OHTA scientific analyst assigned to this assessment, express to you concerns about 60 days being unreasonable as far as timeframe was concerned for this assessment? [Mr. Marshall] A[nswer]. There was some discussion about that, but that occurred some time later when we made the decision to put a notice in the Federal Register. We—when we do an assessment, we put a notice in the Federal Register and then that requires the allowance of a certain amount of time for public comment. 2. Acknowledgment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. 3. An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: her meagre allowance of food or drink Example: Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week. 4. An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month. Example: Some persons averred that Sir Pitt Crawley gave his brother a handsome allowance. 5. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: to make allowance for his naivety Example: After making the largest allowance for fraud. 6. A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Minus the allowance, the total came to thirteen tons. 7. A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb. 8. A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Approval; approbation. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […]gave allowance where he needed none 10. License; indulgence. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: this Allowance for their Transgressions 11. A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension. Labels: countable, uncountable