Dictionary Entry
allowance
allowance is a 9-letter English word with 15 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Approval; approbation. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Approval; approbation.
- 2noun
The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
- 3noun
Acknowledgment.
- 4noun
License; indulgence.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
- 7noun
A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
the act of allowing
"He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"
- 10noun
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- 11noun
an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
"an allowance for profit"
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- 12noun
an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period)
"travel allowance"
"my weekly allowance of two eggs"
- 13noun
a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
- 14noun
a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
- 15verb
put on a fixed allowance, as of food
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