Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of allowance is as below...

Dole :: Dole (n.) That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance..

Exhibition :: Exhibition (n.) Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars..

Pittance :: Pittance (n.) A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation..

Percentage :: Percentage (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) Acknowledgment.

Firebote :: Firebote (n.) An allowance of fuel. See Bote.

Allocatur :: Allocatur (n.) Allowed. The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer..

Solatium :: Solatium (n.) Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings..

Leakage :: Leakage (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking..

Readmittance :: Readmittance (n.) Allowance to enter again; a second admission.

Annuity :: Annuity (n.) A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance..

Neat :: Neat (a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.].

Draff :: Draff (n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods.

Skimp :: Skimp (v. t.) To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.

Dietary :: Dietary (n.) A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc..

Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

Quarterage :: Quarterage (n.) A quarterly allowance.

Alimony :: Alimony (n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) License; indulgence.

Random Fonts

Most Popular