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Definitions: Allowance |
AllowanceNoun1. 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". 2. A sum granted as reimbursement for expenses. 3. An amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit". 4. A permissible difference; allowing freedom to move within limits. 5. A reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets. 6. The act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom". Verb1. Put on a fixed allowance, as of food. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "allowance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Economics | A deduction or discount from the price permitted by a seller. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Additional material left on tooth flank for finish machining. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | The difference between the minimum limit of size of the hole and the maximum limit of size of the shaft. It is the minimum clearance(positive allowance)or maximum interference(negative allowance)between such parts. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | An allowance allows you to receive part of your income free of tax. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AllowanceSynonyms: adjustment (n), allowance account (n), leeway (n), margin (n), tolerance (n), valuation account (n), valuation reserve (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Apportionment | Dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte. |
Discount | Verb: discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax. |
Noun: discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage; rebate, rebatement; backwardation, contango; salvage; tare and tret. | |
Giving | Allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention. |
Insufficiency | Render insufficient; Adjective:; drain of resources, impoverish; (waste); stint; (begrudge); put on short allowance. |
Dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations; banyan day. | |
Permission | Noun: permission, leave; allowance, sufferance; tolerance, toleration; liberty, law, license, concession, grace; indulgence; (lenity); favor, dispensation, exemption, release; connivance; vouchsafement. |
Qualification | With grains of allowance, cum grano salis; exceptis excipiendis; wind and weather permitting; if possible. |
Allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances; mitigation. | |
Allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account; modulate. | |
Reward | Allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi, dustoori; mileage. |
Unbelief Doubt | Adverb: cum grano salis; with grains of allowance. |
Vindication | Apology, gloss, varnish; plea; salvo; excuse, extenuating circumstances; allowance, allowance to be made; locus paenitentiae. |
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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I gave Mike no fart allowance. (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez) Remind me to raise their allowance! (Spy Kids; writing credit: Robert Rodriguez) Either I get a formal response to my request for the same lunch allowance as Henry or I shall withdraw my labor. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) Well, these bills will have to be paid out of your allowance. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I spent a good part of my allowance on this new cream rinse and it's neither creamy nor rinsy. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Sir William Osler | Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others; which cannot be, where there is no law: but freedom is not, as we are told, a liberty for every man to do what he lists: (for who could be free, when every other man's humour might domineer over him?) but a liberty to dispose, and order as he lists, his person, actions, possessions, and his whole property, within the allowance of those laws under which he is, and therein not to be subject to the arbitrary will of another, but freely follow his own. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The warships in commission of the German fleet must have on board or in reserve only the allowance of arms, munitions and war material fixed by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He ate up in doing nothing a considerable allowance, something like three thousand francs. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The Queen giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was however surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Or your kidneys may not remove any fluid at all. That is why every patient has a different daily allowance for fluid. (references) | |
Recommended Dietary Allowance Recommendations for daily intake of specific nutrients for groups of healthy individuals. (references) | ||
Business | They are known as Capital Expenditure Investment Allowance Scheme (IAS) and Local Enterprise Technical Assistance Scheme (LETAS). (references) | |
In 1998, KEPCO recorded a 4.9 percent in T&D power loss rate and 99.35 percent in keeping the voltage within the allowance limits. (references) | ||
The tax incentive is administered under a plan known as one-year accelerated depreciation allowance for energy-efficient equipment and technology. (references) | ||
Children | Kuwait | Citizen parents also receive a monthly government allowance for each child. (references) |
Hungary | In September the Government converted the family allowance into a school attendance allowance. (references) | |
Hungary | Taking away the family allowance is thus seen by Roma as punishment for neglecting to do something that they cannot afford. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Azerbaijan | The Government provided a minimal allowance to IDP's in the form of a bread allowance of $4 (18,000 manats) per month per family as well as an additional $2 (9,000 manats) per month for each child. (references) |
Hong Kong | Those granted refugee status, as well as those awaiting UNHCR assessment of their status, receive a subsistence allowance from the UNHCR, but are not allowed to seek employment or enroll their children in local schools. (references) | |
Chad | A person whose application is accepted is eligible to enroll in a 6-month care maintenance program that includes a monthly subsistence allowance, medical care, and assistance in finding work; a local NGO funded this program. (references) | |
Economic History | Hungary | A corporate tax allowance is also available for R+ACY-D. (references) |
Hungary | This allowance will be in effect up to and including the 2011 tax year. (references) | |
Hungary | These give full allowance of the corporate tax calculated on the basis of net revenues. (references) | |
Human Rights | Philippines | Administrators budget a daily subsistence allowance of about $0.60 (30 pesos). (references) |
Kenya | The assessors are taken from all walks of life and receive a sitting allowance for the case. (references) | |
Colombia | In 1999 INPEC reported that the daily food allowance for each prisoner was $1.44 (2,700 pesos). (references) | |
Minorities | Israel and the occupied territories | The social security child allowance for parents who did not serve in the military and did not attend a yeshiva (including Arabs) is to equal the allowance of those who had done so. Israeli Arab groups allege that many employers use the prerequisite of military service to avoid hiring non-Jews. (references) |
Political Economy | GHANA | The daily minimum wage combines wages with customary benefits such as a transportation allowance. (references) |
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | The taxpayer is entitled to an allowance of TT$20,000. Trinidad and Tobago and the United States have entered into a double taxation treaty. (references) | |
Trade | South Africa | In the application of inflation targeting, allowance will be made for the price effects of serious supply shocks, such as the international price of crude oil, higher food prices due to weather and inordinate changes in the international exchange value of the Rand. (references) |
Travel | Greece | Included in the duty free allowance are up to 200 cigarettes, 50 cigars and one liter of liquor. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Housing for expatriate employees residing in the Kingdom is usually provided by the employer or through a housing allowance given to the employee. (references) | |
Women | Morocco | The divorce may be finalized even over the woman's objections, although in such cases the court grants her unspecified allowance rights. (references) |
Netherlands | In addition battered women who leave their domestic partners become eligible for social benefits, which include an adequate basic living subsidy as well as an allowance for dependent children. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Suriname | Including a cost of living allowance, the lowest wage for civil servants is about $100 (Sf244,000) per month. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place. In 1640 Father Secchi saw one in a cemetery near Florence and frightened it away with the sign of the cross. He describes it as gifted with many heads an an uncommon allowance of limbs, and he saw it in more than one place at a time. The good man was coming away from dinner at the time and explains that if he had not been "heavy with eating" he would have seized the demon at all hazards. Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond. (He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.) The water turned at once to blood "and so contynues unto ys daye." The pond has since been bled with a ditch. As late as the beginning of the fourteenth century a ghoul was cornered in the crypt of the cathedral at Amiens and the whole population surrounded the place. Twenty armed men with a priest at their head, bearing a crucifix, entered and captured the ghoul, which, thinking to escape by the stratagem, had transformed itself to the semblance of a well known citizen, but was nevertheless hanged, drawn and quartered in the midst of hideous popular orgies. The citizen whose shape the demon had assumed was so affected by the sinister occurrence that he never again showed himself in Amiens and his fate remains a mystery. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Much allowance is due to officers employed in each branch of this system, and the more so as there is good cause to believe that each acted under the conviction that he possessed the power which he undertook to exercise. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I will suggest that Congress appropriate a very small additional allowance for official expenses, so that Members will not be required to use their salary increase for essential official business. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | This will be done by raising the low-income allowance and reducing tax rates. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Allowance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allowance" is used about 2,156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2,156 | 4,050 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "allowance": A grain of allowance ♦ allowance account ♦ allowance for bad debts account ♦ allowance for cash ♦ allowance for loss in value ♦ allowance in kind ♦ allowance or charge ♦ allowance rate ♦ allowance to be made ♦ baggage allowance ♦ be on short allowance ♦ by his own allowance ♦ capital allowance ♦ capital consumption allowance ♦ car allowance ♦ child allowance ♦ children's allowance ♦ child's special allowance ♦ commercial allowance ♦ compassionate allowance ♦ cost of living allowance ♦ daily allowance ♦ dependency allowance ♦ depreciation allowance ♦ dynamic load allowance ♦ expense allowance ♦ family allowance ♦ food allowance ♦ free baggage allowance ♦ free luggage allowance ♦ language allowance ♦ lodging allowance ♦ long service allowance ♦ make allowance ♦ make allowance for ♦ marriage allowance ♦ maternity allowance ♦ mileage allowance ♦ money allowance ♦ non quantifiable costs allowance ♦ overtime allowance ♦ parent allowance ♦ per diem allowance ♦ periodical allowance ♦ permissible allowance ♦ personal allowance ♦ put on short allowance ♦ quarters allowance ♦ recommended allowance ♦ removal allowance ♦ rent allowance ♦ shrinkage allowance ♦ subsistence allowance ♦ tax allowance ♦ tourist allowance ♦ trade readjustment allowance ♦ travel allowance ♦ travelling allowance ♦ weekly allowance ♦ widowed mother's allowance ♦ with grains of allowance. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "allowance": wage-allowance. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "allowance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zbritje (alighting, commutation, deduction, descent, discount, disembarkation, down, falling, lowering, off reckoning, rebate, recoupment, reduction, subtraction), ushqim (aliment, alimentation, alimony, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, supply, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), tolerancë (latitude, tolerance, toleration), shumë e zbritur, porcion (batch, dollop, dose, helping, portion, ration), ndihmë financiale, lejim (admission, authorization, permission, permit, permittance, sanction), leje (authorization, furlough, leave, liberty, licence, license, order, pass, permission, permit, permittance, release, sanction), lejë (authorization, furlough, leave, liberty, licence, license, order, pass, permission, permit, permittance, release, sanction), justifikim (alibi, defence, defense, exculpation, excuse, extenuation, justification, plea, warrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ترخيص (authorization, licence, license, permissiveness, permitting), علاوة (bonus, increase, perquisite, premium), التفاوت (difference), التسامح (broad-mindedness), إنقاص (reduction), إلتمس له العذر, إقرار أو تسليم, إجازة (authorization, furlough, holiday, leave, permission, permissiveness, permit, rest, vacation, variance, warrant, warranty), إباحة, بدل (apposition, change, exchange, lieu, quid pro quo, recompense, shift, sit, substitute, supersede, switch, treadle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разрешение (card of admission, fiat, key, leave, licence, license, permission, permit, resolution, sanction, solution), толеранс (limit, tolerance), толериране (toleration), вземане под внимание, отстъпка (concession, discount, drawback, rebate, reduction), отбив (discount, rebate), определен период, позволение (authorization, grant, leave, licence, license, permission, permit), периодично отпускана сума, допуск (limit), джобни пари (beer money, pin money, pocket money, spending money), дажба (feed, ration, serving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 貼 (to fit snugly, to keep close to, to paste, to stick), 補貼 (subsidy), 補助 (subsidy), 津貼 , 容限. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sleva (abatement, deduction, discount, rebate, reduction), renta (income, rent), přídavek (adjunct, bonus, encore, grant-in-aid, supplement), přídìl (allocation, portion, ration, stint), odmìřovat, kapesné (pocket money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ydelse (allocation, benefit, bonus, entitlement, flow rate, fluid yield, machine output, output, performance, performance on production, performances, production, productive output, work output, yield), tillæg (addenda, App., Appendix, Appx, things to be added), tildeling (allocation, allotment, apportionment, assignment, bonus), spil (capstan, game, gear, machine, winch), skattefradrag (relief.), refusion (credit, refund), godtgørelse (credit, pay, refund, remuneration), bistand (allocation, bonus, relief, subsidy, subvention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vergoeding wegens mijnschade (compensation, indemnification), vergoeding (compensation, pay, remuneration), toewijzing (allocation, allotment, assigning, assignment, attribution, bonus, stacking allotment), toeslag (addition, adjudication, allocation, amounts added, bonus, flux, fluxing agent, price supplement, slagging medium, steel mill, surcharge), toelage (allocation, bonus, grant, grant aid, grant-in-aid, scholarship, study bursary, study grant, subsidie, subsidy), toekenning (adjudication, allocation, bonus), toegift (addendum, addition, additive), overmaat (abundance, interference), kleinst vereiste speling, bonificatie (credit), bijslag (allocation, bonus), belastingaftrek (relief., tax deduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فوق العاده وهزینه ء سفر, فوق العاده دادن , مددمعاش , جیره دادن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hyvitys (commission, compensation, credit, crediting, handicap, recompense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | majoration, indemnité, allocation (allocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zugabe (addition, bonus, encore, extra, premium), Beihilfe (abetment, abets, aid, aiding and abetting, allocation, bonus, complicity, contribution, financial assistance, grant, grant-in-aid, help, relief, subsidy, subvention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επίδομα (allocation, annual instalment, annual repayment, annuity, benefit, bonus, bounty, grant, instalments on liabilities, instalments on loans, subsidy, subvention), έκπτωση (credit, deduction, deviation, discount, drift, granting of a reduction, markdown, rebate, reduction, refund), επιχορήγηση (allocation, appanage, bonus, grant, grant aid, grant-in-aid, subsidie, subsidy, subvention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מע ק (award, bonus, bounty, bursary, fellowship, grant, gratuity), שיור (remainder, remnant, residue), קצב" (allotment, dole, limit, pension, stipend), "קצב" (allotment, appropriation, setting aside), "פרש" (allocation, discharge, eccrisis, secretion, slops), "מי כיס (pocket money), סבולת (endurance, resistance, stamina, tolerance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pótlék (bonus, complement, ersatz, make-weight, surrogate), juttatás (allocation, allotment, assignment, benefit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | uang bantuan, tunjangan (aid, alimony, subsidy), potongan (cutlet, decrease), izin (consent, permission), infak (donation, endowment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tolleranza (endurance, forbearance, sufferance, tolerance, toleration), indennit (allocation, benefit, bonus, claim, compensation, expense, indemnity), assegno (allocation, bonus, check, cheque). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 給与 (grant, supply), 余裕 (composure, margin, room, rope, scope, surplus, time), 勘定 (calculation, consideration, counting, reckoning, settlement of an account). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しおくり (remittance), しきゅうがく, しきゅう (a walk, base on balls, Emperor's coffin, four balls, hit a batter by pitching a ball, payment, pressing, urgent, uterus, womb), きゅうよ (desperation, extremity, grant, supply), ふよ (assignment, distribution, emperor's illness, endowment, grant, indisposition, unhappiness), ふち (abyss, arrangement, deep pool, edge, grouping, ignorance, incurability, ration, stipend, the depths), か"じょう (aboard a warship, annulation, calculation, consideration, coronary, counting, defending soldier, emotion, feeling, letter of commendation, reckoning, ring-forming, sentiment, settlement of an account, tubular), "うさ (common difference, consideration, cross, crossing, examination, golden sands, intersection, margin, quiz, test, tolerance), "づかい (handyman, incidental expenses, personal expenses, pocket money, spending money), よゆう (composure, margin, room, rope, scope, surplus, time), て""ろ (consideration, discretion), てあて (compensation, medical care, treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 관용 (leniency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tortys (gift), lowanse (concession, ration), cooid ronney (dividend, portion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | rasjon, rabatt (discount), innrømmelse (admission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allowanceay abono, mesada, bónus (allocation, bonus), bonificação (bonus, credit), concessão (accordance, allotment, award, bestowal, concession, conferment, franchise, grant, grant-in-aid, lease), desconto (abatement, deduction, discount, discounting, rebate, recoupment, set off), estabelecer um subsídio, folga mínima, interferência máxima, tolerância (abiding, catholicity, charity, endurance, resistance, room, sufferance, tolerance, toleration), pensão (boarding house, boarding school, hostel, inn, pension, retirement), permissão (concession, consent, entrance, Favor, favour, leave, liberty, licence, license, pass, permission, permit, say so), racionar (doleful, ration), rendimento (crop, efficiency, fruit, income, incoming, metal removing efficiency, output, output power, proceeds, produce, production, productivity, rent-roll, return, revenue, stock removing efficiency, yield), sobre espessura do dente, subsídio (aid, allocation, bonus, bounty, dole, grant, grant aid, subsidie, subsidy, subvention), gratificação (allocation, baksheesh, bakshish, beer money, bonus, douche, gratification, gratuity, perquisite, reward). (various references) alocaţie (allocation, allotment, appropriation, assignment, benefit, dole, grant, grant-in-aid, gratuity), admitere (acceptance, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, admission, admittance, adoption, enlisting, enlistment, enrolment, entertainment, receiving, reception, recognizance), toleranţã (bearing, comprehension, fondness, forbearance, indulgence, liberality, limit, tolerance, toleration), tain (meed), recunoaştere (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, admission, avowal, confession, exploration, recognition, recognizance, reconnaissance, resipiscence, scout), rabat (discount, rebate, reduction), raţie (go, intake, ration), permisiune (authorization, faculty, grant, leave, liberty, permission, permit), fixa raţii, bonificaţie (bounty), încuviinţare (agreement, cheer, connivance, permission). (various references) содержание (content, contents, effect, keeping, maintenance, purport, separate maintenance, subject), карманные деньги (pocket money), норма выдачи, прибавка (rise), припуск (over-measure, stock), паек (dietary, ration), допуск (limit, recourse, security clearance, tolerance), допущение (admission, allowables, intromission), денежная помощь (pecuniary aid). (various references) pristanak (assent, consent, consentaneity, ok), isplata (disbursement, payment, payoff, payout, quittance), dozvola (authorization, clearance, leave, licence, license, permission, permit), dopuštanje (sufferance), džeparac (pin money, pocket money). (various references) tolerancia (abiding, broadmindedness, indulgence, overmeasure, reasonableness, sufferance, tolerability, tolerance, tolerant, toleration), concesión (award, awarding, bestowal, concession, conferment, dealership, grant, granting, lease, putting). (various references) underhåll (alimony, maintenance, service, servicing, support, upkeep). (various references) avans (advance, advance payment, earnest, head start, retainer, retaining fee), tolerans (complaisance, forbearance, free play, latitude, margin, tolerance, toleration), müsaade (leave, permission, permit, sanction, toleration), izin (authorization, concession, consent, day off, excuse, furlough, green light, holiday, imprimatur, leave, liberty, pass, permission, permit, sanction, toleration, vac, vacation), iskonto (discount, purchase discount, reduction), indirim (abatement, allowance for cash, cut, deduction, degression, discount, offtake, price cut, price cutting, purchase discount, rebate, reduction), hoşgörü (clemency, complaisance, discretion, forbearance, indulgence, latitude, lenience, leniency, tolerance, toleration), hesaba katma (account, considering, count, taking into account), harçlık (pocket money, spending money), handikap (handicap), göz önünde tutma (account, consideration), ödenek (allocation, appropriation, award, fund, grant, grant-in-aid, pork, supply). (various references) знижка (abatement, deduction, discount, rebate), допуск (recourse), дозвіл (assent, authorization, consent, leave, leaving, o.k., ok, okay, okey, order, permission, permit, permittance, warranty), пайок (ration, size, sizing), перевага (advantage, ascendant, asset, benefit, boon, bulge, capital, convenience, easement, excellence, excellency, odds, overbalance, overweight, precedence, precedency, preference, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, privilege, pull, purchase, start, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage), поправка (correction, corrective, retouch), порція (batch, helping, order, portion, serving, stint), постачання (procurement, provision, purveyance, supply), допущення (admission, admittance, assumption, intromission, presupposition), призначати утримання, схвалення (acceptance, accolade, applause, approbation, approof, approval, backing, o.k., ok, okay, okey), обмежувати утримання, видавати в обмеженій кількості, виправдання (absolution, acquittal, acquittance, alibi, apology, defence, defense, exculpation, excuse, explanation, justification, palliation, warrant, warranty, whitewash), взяття до уваги (notation), кишенькові гроші, фора, раціон (ratio, ration), утримання (abstention, abstinence, aliment, alimentation, alimony, deduction, maintenance, sustentation, upkeep), припуск (overmeasure). (various references) tiền tiêu vặt phần tiền, tiền cấp phát, tiền bỏ túi, sự thú nhận tiền trợ cấp, sự tính đến, sự dung thứ sự trừ, sự cho phép sự thừa nhận, sự chiếu cố đến, sự công nhận (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, homologation, recognition), phần ăn sự kể đến, khẩu phần. (various references) lw+ans, goddefiad (license, toleration), dogn (dose, portion, share). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | prebenda. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Kings Chapter 25, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai h estiatoria autou estiatoria dia pantoV edoqh autw ex oikou tou basilewV logon hmeraV en th hmera autou pasaV taV hmeraV thV zwhV autou . |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Yeer fruyt forsothe he ordeynde to hym with oute cesynge; the whiche and was youen to hym of the kyng by eche days, alle the days of his lijf. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Kings Chapter 25, Verse 30 |
| Croatian | Do kraja njegova života babilonski mu je kralj trajno, iz dana u dan, davao uzdržavanje. |
| Danish | Han fik sit daglige Underhold af Kongen, hver Dag hvad han behøvede for den Dag, så længe han levede. |
| Dutch | En aangaande zijn tering, een gedurige tering werd hem van den koning gegeven, elk dagelijks bestemde deel op zijn dag, al de dagen zijns levens. |
| French | Le roi pourvut constamment son entretien journalier tout le temps de sa vie. |
| German | und es ward ihm ein Teil bestimmt, das man ihm allewege gab vom König, auf einen jeglichen Tag sein ganzes Leben lang. |
| Haitian Creole | Chak jou, wa a ba li sa li te bezwen pou l' viv, konsa, konsa, jouk li mouri. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan ditentukan baginda baginya biayanya akan penghidupannya pada tiap-tiap hari sama banyaknya, maka ia itu sepanjang umur hidupnya. |
| Italian | Il suo vitto quotidiano gli fu assicurato sempre dal re di Babilonia, finché visse. |
| Maori | A ko te wahi mana, he mea pumau, he mea homai e te kingi ki a ia i tenei ra, i tenei ra, i nga ra katoa i ora ai ia. |
| Norwegian | Og han fikk sitt stadige underhold fra kongen, hver dag det han den dag tiltrengte, så lenge han levde. |
| Portuguese | E, quanto sua subsistência, esta lhe foi dada de contínuo pelo rei, a porção de cada dia no seu dia, todos os dias da sua vida. |
| Rumanian | Kmpqratul i -a kngrijit necurmat de hrana de toate zilele, kn tot timpul vieyii lui |
| Swedish | Och ett ständigt underhåll gavs honom från konungen, visst för var dag, så länge han levde. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "allowance": allowanced, allowances. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "allowance": disallowance. (additional references) | |
Words containing "allowance": disallowances. (additional references) | |
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"Allowance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alexanco, Alloiance, allowancw, allowence, alowance, Llowarch, lowance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "allowance" (pronounced ulou"uns) |
| 6 | u l ou" u n s | disallowance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-l-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: canella. | |
-3 letters: anlace, callan, callow, canola, clonal, locale. | |
-4 letters: alane, allow, alone, anole, calla, canal, canoe, cella, cello, clean, clone, clown, coala, lance, llano, local, ocean, walla. | |
-5 letters: acne, aeon, alae, alan, alec, aloe, alow, anal, anew, anoa, awol, call, calo, cane, cell, clan, claw, clew, clon, coal, cola, cole, cone, cowl, elan, enol. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-l-n-o-w" | |
+1 letter: allowanced, allowances. | |
+3 letters: disallowance. | |
+4 letters: disallowances, lowerclassman. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 6F 77 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. --- .--. .- -. -.-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l o w a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 006F 0077 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357878818967806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Bible Trace | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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