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Synonyms for allowances
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-lou-uhns |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈlaʊ əns |
Top 10 synonyms for allowances Other synonyms for the word allowances
- adaptation
- admission
- advantage
- apportionment
- bequest
- bite
- bounty
- commission
- cut
- endowment
- fellowship
- gift
- grant
- honorarium
- inheritance
- interest
- legacy
- lot
- measure
- part
- pay
- pension
- piece
- portion
- prize
- quantity
- quota
- ration
- rebate
- recompense
- reduction
- remittance
- salary
- sanction
- scholarship
- share
- slice
- stint
- stipend
- subsidy
- sufferance
- taste
- toleration
- wage
Définition of allowances
Origin :- late 14c., "praise" (a sense now obsolete), from Old French aloance "allowance, granting, allocation," from alouer (see allow). Sense of "a sum alloted to meet expenses" is from c.1400. In accounts, meaning "a sum placed to one's credit" is attested from 1520s. To make allowances is literally to add or deduct a sum from someone's account for some special circumstance. Figurative use of the phrase is attested from 1670s.
- noun amount of money or other supply
- noun discount; concession
- But there is one task-master who knows no mercy and makes no allowances.
- Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
- “Oh, well, allowances should be made for a tenderfoot,” she bantered.
- Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
- Allowances have to be made for the hostility of circumstances.
- Extract from : « Bulgaria » by Frank Fox
- To do them justice, Englishmen seldom forget that allowances must be made for foreigners.
- Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
- It was necessary to make some allowances; and the feet, as I understand it, are free members.
- Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather
- These lights, or candle of l. 839, would be only part of the allowances.
- Extract from : « Early English Meals and Manners » by Various
- How long Squires shall have allowances, and Fire shall burn in the Hall.
- Extract from : « Early English Meals and Manners » by Various
- Unless one had allowances from friends, starvation might be the end.
- Extract from : « The History of London » by Walter Besant
- A Fellow was entitled to his commons, and, in addition, to allowances of 13s.
- Extract from : « St. John's College, Cambridge » by Robert Forsyth Scott
- But the duke cannot stand this open affiche, and withdraws his allowances.
- Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury
Antonyms for allowances
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