allowance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
commerce
engineering
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
natural-sciences
pets
physical-sciences
racing
sports
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-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 *-yós
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.
Base: allow
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: allowances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: allowaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: allowances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: allowancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: allowanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: allowanced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: allowaunce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance
[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.
The physical background of foaming of the complex fermentation liquids is not well understood. Proteins do play a major role, but all other components can also be important. Foaming is a problem, but its relation to mass transfer leads to the allowance of a certain amount of foam on top of the fermenter. For foam control a number of methods are available. Most widely used are the antifoam liquids and the centrifugal separator. The latter one should be equipped with a safety antifoam dosage device also and is less attractive for large-scale applications.
The colossal stupidity of the one-party strategy has had three disastrous effects: the nurturance of right-wing Republican homophobes, the weakening and silencing of pro-gay, progressive Republicans, and the allowance of lacklustrer^([sic]), liberal Democrats to exploit us at their will and ignore us at their convenience.
gloss: Acknowledgment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.
gloss: An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: her meagre allowance of food or drink
Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.
gloss: An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
Some persons averred that Sir Pitt Crawley gave his brother a handsome allowance.
gloss: Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to make allowance for his naivety
After making the largest allowance for fraud.
gloss: A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Minus the allowance, the total came to thirteen tons.
gloss: A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.
gloss: A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Approval; approbation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […]gave allowance where he needed none
gloss: License; indulgence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: this Allowance for their Transgressions
gloss: A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
gloss: To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Our provisions were allowanced.
Derived words: attendance allowance
cost-of-living disallowance
depreciation allowance
disallowance
emission allowance
family allowance
field allowance
Jobseeker's Allowance
misallowance
monkey's allowance
personal allowance
seam allowance
separation allowance
travel allowance
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: määräraha
lang: Finnish
word: päiväraha
lang: Finnish
word: annos
lang: French
word: indemnité
lang: Italian
word: razione
lang: Japanese
word: 給与
roman: kyūyo
lang: Japanese
word: こずかい
roman: kozukai
lang: Portuguese
word: permissão
lang: Russian
word: посо́бие
roman: posóbije
lang: German
word: finanzielle Abgeltung
lang: German
word: Kostenerstattung
lang: German
word: Aufwandsentschädigung
lang: Spanish
word: propina
lang: Spanish
word: viático
lang: Spanish
word: asignación
lang: Spanish
word: mesada
lang: Spanish
word: pitanza
lang: Spanish
word: acostamiento