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allowance

An allowance is money that someone gives for doing things, often for going to school. Susan gets an allowance of five dollars a week. An allowance is a small amount of credit that someone gives to you. Bobby's parents let him have an allowance of coins for playing games. Allowance is an act of allowing or granting of something by someone.

allowance

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 a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances an allowance for profit a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits the act of allowing He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room put on a fixed allowance, as of food (= valuation reserve) a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets

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Simple sentences

You must make allowance for his lack of experience.
Don't waste your allowance on useless things.
We must make allowance for his age.
I am given a monthly allowance of fifty thousand yen.
I approached my father about an increase in allowance.
Her father can afford to give her a big allowance every month.
The lawyer asked the judge to make allowance for the age of the accused.
He wants to apply for Jobseeker's Allowance.
He gives his children an allowance.
The socially needy receive an additional allowance.
Don't fritter away your allowance.
Father advanced me a week's allowance.
Very well, we'll make allowance in your case.
You've made no allowance for the fact that he is young.
Tom gives his children an allowance.
Tom gives his kids an allowance.
Tom has an allowance.

Movie subtitles

Well, we'll take it out of their allowance next week.
My allowance.
She makes no allowance for science.
I have a little allowance of my own.
How'd your parents take it about Mr. Minify giving you an allowance and pretty clothes and all the rest?
I give you a liberal allowance.
You better speak to your father about raising your allowance.
Now this overdone, though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve - the censure of which one must in your allowance outweigh a whole theatre of others.
What happened to your allowance?
Weren't you the one that decided we'd give him a regular allowance to teach him about money?
At this precise moment you are, with the speed of a mechanical brain, weighing and computing an infinite number of possibilities. 1) He spent this month's allowance.
Father will try to cut off my allowance and send me off to Larrabee Copper in Butte, Montana, and we don't want to go to Butte, Montana, do we?
Well, a committee was set up and we went into it but I hadn't made sufficient allowance for the cushioning effect of the water.
Stop allowance of cheese until the theft is made up.
I shall cut the water allowance for the entire ship's company.
Could I have an extra dollar with my allowance?
Especially if your allowance is discontinued.
Perhaps our production would increase if our Skoda workers were allowed higher pay. since our food allowance is very low. frequently resulting in exhaustion.
I have a little allowance of my own. I could pay for it and he needn't know anything about it.
Perhaps we'd better increase his allowance.
Be good enough to make out an advance on my allowance for next year, say half.
Next year's allowance?
But I wrote and told you the allowance has been stopped.
I shall go to this gentleman and extract the allowance in person.
Well, one, he's spent this month's allowance.
One week of catching, a kid can make more than two years worth of allowance.
This year, however, our allowance has been cut exactly in half.
I might even make her a small allowance.. temporarily.
I'll take it out of her allowance.
Just got my allowance yesterday.
Six thousand a fortnight, plus family allowance and overtime!
Why? Won't she give him his allowance?
Two, he's borrowed against next month's allowance.
Father will try to cut off my allowance and send me to Larrabee Copper in Butte, Montana.
How will I get my allowance?

News and current affairs

For example, subsidies encouraging car owners to trade in their old models bolstered the automobile industry, while the introduction of a short-time working allowance supplemented wages, allowing struggling companies to avoid shedding employees.
Moreover, there is no allowance for maintaining national statistical offices, training and retaining personnel, or analyzing and disseminating the data. Given capacity constraints, particularly in the poor countries, this cost is likely to be high.
National governments could establish a personal allowance to exempt retail investors.
The second limitation of long run models is this: they are estimated from history and so make no allowance for dramatic changes in the supply side or financial environment.
Moreover, there is no allowance for maintaining national statistical offices, training and retaining personnel, or analyzing and disseminating the data.
The US tax code allows interest payments to be deducted as a business expense; there is no equivalent allowance for payments to equity investors.
Bush makes no allowance for the possibility that he may be wrong, and he tolerates no dissent.
Without this short-time allowance, the average number of unemployed in 2009 would be 300,000 higher than it is now.
Social benefits, for example, are paid only for a limited amount of time; they are then replaced by a minimum living allowance, which represents an exclusion from society.

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