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| allowance | (N.) | Approval; approbation. |  ,   ',  | | allowance | (N.) | The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. | ,', | | allowance | (N.) | Acknowledgment. | ,', | | allowance | (N.) | License; indulgence. | ,', | | allowance | (N.) | 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. | ,', | | allowance | (N.) | Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. | ,', | | allowance | (N.) | A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. | ,', | | allowance | (N.) | 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. | ,', |
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