ALLOWANCE

Definitions

1. 1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] Crabbe.
2. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.
3. 3. Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.
4. 4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] Locke.
5. 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. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.
6. 6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.
7. 7. A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.