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allowance
- /əˈlaʊəns/
- /əˈlaʊɪns/ Canada, US
Where it comes from
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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-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin laudō
Latin allaudō
Old French aloer
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Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.
Proto-Italic *stlokos?
Old Latin stlocus
Latin locus
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Latin -ō
Latin locō
Latin allocō
Old French aloer
Old French alouer
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
Proto-Italic *-ijos
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin -āntia
Old French -ance
Old French alouancebor.
Middle English allouance
English allowance
From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance. Morphologically allow + -ance.
noun allowances · allowaunce
- 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
- Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.
- 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
- 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.
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances. to make allowance for his naivety
- 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.
- A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry. On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.
- A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
- Approval; approbation. […]gave allowance where he needed none
- License; indulgence. this Allowance for their Transgressions
- A sum of money allotted to a wife for her separate maintenance, especially alimony granted upon a legal separation or divorce. '[…] Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance […].
- A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
verb allowances · allowancing · allowanced · allowaunce
- To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink). The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
- To supply in a fixed and limited quantity. Our provisions were allowanced.
