Definition of "allowance" in Englisch

noun

1. Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

2. Acknowledgment.

3. An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.

   • her meagre allowance of food or drink
   • Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.

4. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.

   • to make allowance for his naivety

5. (commerce) A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.

   • Minus the allowance, the total came to thirteen tons.

6. (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.

   • On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.

7. (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.

8. (obsolete) Approval; approbation.

9. (obsolete) License; indulgence.

10. (engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.

verb

1. (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).

   • The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.

2. (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

   • Our provisions were allowanced.