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allowances

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for allowances.

Editorial note

This book sets out some extensive lesson plans, but you can tailor them to your own time allowances.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of allowances gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person.

noun

Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for allowances.

noun

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

noun

Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person.

noun

Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

noun

Acknowledgment.

Example sentences

1

This book sets out some extensive lesson plans, but you can tailor them to your own time allowances.

2

They wouldn't be compatible with the more-popular GPL2 (Linux and everything else), though, which has no such allowances.

3

Sure, there are allowances for technically essential cookies but in practice almost everybody is using third-party services like Google Analytics.

4

Your criteria, even making allowances for half-exaggeration, clearly rule out anyone who is poor or disadvantaged as a potential partner.

5

They pay you enough to support a family, through allowances, and provide a house.

6

Go's GC doesn't yet move memory, and even so there will probably be allowances for passing pointers from Go to C when it is implemented.

7

With a bit of careful tax planning you could offset all the fun unproductive stuff against tax and claim both R&D and small farmer allowances.

8

If you tax a company $10 but then give back $2 in allowances you are not subsidising it by $2, you are taxing it $8.

9

But this law makes no allowances for such things.

10

Jake Shake Original seems to adhere to EU recommended daily allowances (except for protein, which they've jacked up hilariously high), while Soylent has developed their own thing.

11

Also note that there are special allowances made for people of the Book, so Jews and Christians are not quite as bad off as others, theologically speaking.

12

He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances.

Quote examples

1

Perhaps the punchline should be that MPs be paid this "living wage" with no expense allowances (because few of us get chauffeured around for free).

2

This we know because I'm assuming your algorithm is not set to run at a loss, and when you "average" allowances you create overages by your own admission more often than not.

3

Yes these allowances may be abused/dodged (I can see a lot of "home offices" popping up and people claiming tax on their "office rooms"), however there will be a large amount of revenue generated from implementing an under-occupancy tax.

4

Yes, but note from the linked wikipedia article: "Oil, natural gas, and coal benefited most from percentage depletion allowances and other tax-based subsidies" It seems disingenuous to directly compare taxing someone less than you theoretically could have vs the "direct federal expenditures" on renewable energy.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use allowances in a sentence?

This book sets out some extensive lesson plans, but you can tailor them to your own time allowances.

What does allowances mean?

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

What part of speech is allowances?

allowances is commonly used as noun.