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

1. noun. Approval; approbation.
2. noun. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
3. noun. Acknowledgment.
4. noun. License; indulgence.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
7. noun. A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. the act of allowing

   "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"

10. noun. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

    Synonyms: leeway, margin, tolerance

11. noun. an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances

    "an allowance for profit"

    Synonyms: adjustment

12. noun. an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period)

    "travel allowance"

    "my weekly allowance of two eggs"

13. noun. a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
14. noun. a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
15. verb. put on a fixed allowance, as of food

Synonyms

leeway, margin, tolerance, adjustment

Common word forms

allowanced, allowances, allowancing

Words from these letters

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