Allowance word meaning and definition

[noun] the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom"
[noun] a permissible difference; allowing freedom to move within limits
[noun] an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"
[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] a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
[verb] put on a fixed allowance, as of food

\Al*low"ance\, n. [OF. alouance.] 1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] --Crabbe. 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. Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak. 4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] --Locke. 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. 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. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
\Al*low"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Allowancing}.] [See {Allowance}, n.] To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

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