allowance
/əˈlaʊɪns/ verb C2- 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.
He/she/it allowances · Past allowanced · Past participle allowanced · -ing form allowancing
Verb forms
- Base form
- allowance
- He/she/it
- allowances
- Past
- allowanced
- Past participle
- allowanced
- -ing form
- allowancing
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She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley.
I have already made every allowance upon that score.
In this case the matter was simplified by Brunton’s intelligence being quite first-rate, so that it was unnecessary to make any allowance for the personal equation, as the astronomers have dubbed it.
No allowance is made for accidents where diplomatic interests are at stake.
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