allowance

allowance has 15 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. Approval; approbation.
• n.. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
• n.. Acknowledgment.
• n.. License; indulgence.
• n.. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
• n.. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
• n.. A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
• n.. To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.
• n.. the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"
• n.. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
• n.. an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"
• n.. 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"