allowance

noun

/əˈlaʊəns/

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- 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.

derived from alouance
inherited from allouance

Definitions

1
Permission
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
Acknowledgment.
- 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
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
- Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.
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1. 4
  Abatement
  Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
  - to make allowance for his naivety
  - After making the largest allowance for fraud.
2. 5
  A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight…
  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.
3. 6
  A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
  - On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.
4. A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in…
  A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
5. 8
  Approval
  Approval; approbation.
  - […]gave allowance where he needed none
6. 9
  License
  License; indulgence.
  - this Allowance for their Transgressions
7. A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
8. 11
  To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
  - The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
9. 12
  To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
  - Our provisions were allowanced.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at allowance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at allowance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at allowance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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