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allowance

/əˈlaʊɪns/ verbo C2
  1. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink). (transitive) · The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
  2. To supply in a fixed and limited quantity. (transitive) · Our provisions were allowanced.

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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.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 61 · B2
I have already made every allowance upon that score.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 7 · B2
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.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 23 · B2
No allowance is made for accidents where diplomatic interests are at stake.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 70 · B2

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