allowance
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (6)
- an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period)“travel allowance”“my weekly allowance of two eggs”“a child's allowance should not be too generous”
- a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
- an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances“an allowance for profit”Synonyms: adjustment
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limitsSynonyms: leewaymargintolerance
- a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assetsSynonyms: valuation reservevaluation accountallowance account
- the act of allowing“He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room”
Verb (1)
- put on a fixed allowance, as of food
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance. [1913 Webster]
Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place, shaking, to show his tolerance.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]
2.The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration. [1913 Webster]
3.(Med.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal. [1913 Webster]
4.(Forestry) Capability of growth in more or less shade. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5.the allowed amount of variation from the standard or from exact conformity to the specified dimensions, weight, hardness, voltage etc., in various mechanical or electrical devices or operations; -- caklled also allowance specif.: (Coinage) The amount which coins, either singly or in lots, are legally allowed to vary above or below the standard of weight or fineness. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
6.(Biochemistry) the capacity to resist the deleterious action of a chemical agent normally harmful to the organism; as, the acquired tolerance of bacteria to anitbiotics. [PJC]
7.(Immunology) the acquired inability to respond with an immune reaction to an antigen to which the organism normally responds; -- called also immunotolerance, immunological tolerance, or immune tolerance. Such tolerance may be induced by exposing an animal to the antigen at a very early stage of life, prior to maturation of the immune system, or, in adults, by exposing the animal to repeated low doses of a weak protein antigen (low-zone tolerance), or to a large amount of an antigen (high-zone tolerance). [PJC]
Tolerance of the mint. (Coinage) Same as Remedy of the mint. See under Remedy. [1913 Webster]
1.Approval; approbation. [Obs.] --Crabbe. [1913 Webster]
2.The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. [1913 Webster]
Without the king's will or the state's allowance.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
3.Acknowledgment. [1913 Webster]
The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
4.License; indulgence. [Obs.] --Locke. [1913 Webster]
5.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. [1913 Webster]
I can give the boy a handsome allowance.— Thackeray.[1913 Webster]
6.Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. [1913 Webster]
After making the largest allowance for fraud.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
7.(com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. [1913 Webster]