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MAKE ALLOWANCE

Specialty Definition: MAKE ALLOWANCE

DomainDefinition

Agriculture

The margin between the government support price for milk and the CCC's purchase price for butter, nonfat dry milk, and cheese. This margin is administratively set to cover the costs of "making" milk into butter, nonfat dry milk, or cheese to reach the desired level of prices for milk in manufacturing uses. (or milk manufacturing marketing adjustment). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: MAKE ALLOWANCE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discount

Verb: discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax.

Qualification

Allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account; modulate.

Vindication

Take the will for the deed, make allowance for, give credit for, do justice to; give one his due, give the Devil his due.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: MAKE ALLOWANCE

English words defined with "MAKE ALLOWANCE": Dispart. (references)

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Expression: MAKE ALLOWANCE

Expression using "MAKE ALLOWANCE": make allowance for. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MAKE ALLOWANCE

Language Translations for "MAKE ALLOWANCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

suoda anteeksi (excuse). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לקחת בחשבון (bear in mind, consider, figure in, take into account, take into consideration), ל"ון לכף זכות (acquit, justify). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tekintetbe vesz (to allow for, to calculate, to make allowance for sg, to respect, to take into consideration, to take sg into account), számításba vesz (count, take into account, to allow for, to lay one's accounts with, to make allowance for sg, to reckon with sg, to take into account), figyelembe vesz (take into consideration, to advert, to attend to sg, to consider, to make allowance for sg, to note, to take into account, to take into consideration). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

akemay allowanceay

   

Portuguese

  

ter em consideração (make allowance for), perdoar (absolve, condone, excuse, forgave, forgive, indulge, let off, look over, make allowance for, pardon, remit), desculpar (apologize, condone, exculpate, excuse, forgave, forgive, instantiate, justify, make allowance for, palliate, pardon). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ţine seamã de (bear in mind, make allowance for, respect, take account of, take into consideration), ţine seama de (allow for, include, make allowance for, mind). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

учитывать все обстоятельства. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hesaba katmak (allow, bargain for, consider, count, figure on, make allowance for, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, regard, set off, take account of, take into account). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MAKE ALLOWANCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-e-k-l-l-m-n-o-w"

-4 letters: allowance.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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