Allowance in a sentence as a noun

The husband stays at home and does housework, and the wife gives him a $1,000 a week allowance.

Are you personally going to be perfectly content with a $10K/yr subsistence allowance?

Unlocking them over time can enable automatic mortgage, trust, and allowance payouts.

Here, it's not about speed limiting to "non-favoured" sites, but about whether consumption from those sites consume your allocated bandwidth allowance.

Allowance in a sentence as a verb

By reversing this decision, it becomes possible to specify both allowance and disallowance of NIL-valued parameters.

During the Iranian crisis there was a student at USC in my dorm whose parents were sending him money by first buying a number of houses in west LA and then funneling the rent money to him as his monthly allowance.

While my school-mates were being given a generous monthly allowance, their parents credit cards, new computers and condos closer to school with a brand new SUV to drive the quarter mile there and back, I was working a full-time job, taking night school, driving an hour and a half to school and back in a car I was praying wouldn't die on me, sleeping 4 hours a night, and literally eating instant noodles 3 times a day for months on end.

Allowance definitions

noun

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"

noun

a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses

noun

an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"

See also: adjustment

noun

a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

See also: leeway margin tolerance

noun

a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets

noun

the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"

verb

put on a fixed allowance, as of food