allowance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

   “you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance”

2. isim Acknowledgment.

   “The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.”

3. isim An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.

   “her meagre allowance of food or drink”

4. isim Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person.

   “She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.”

5. isim Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.

   “to make allowance for his naivety”

6. isim A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.

   “Minus the allowance, the total came to thirteen tons.”

7. isim A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.

   “On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.”

8. isim A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
9. isim Approval; approbation.

   “[…]gave allowance where he needed none”

10. isim License; indulgence.

    “this Allowance for their Transgressions”

11. isim A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
12. fiil To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).

    “The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.”

13. fiil To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

    “Our provisions were allowanced.”