Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ALLOWANCE
ALLOWANCE
Definitions of ALLOWANCE
- permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
- Acknowledgment.
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
- A child's allowance; pocket money.
- An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose
- (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
- (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
- (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
- (obsolete) Approval; approbation.
- (obsolete) License; indulgence.
- (engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
- (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
- (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
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