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Allowance
/əˈlaʊəns/
An amount of money given regularly for a particular purpose.
Synonyms:
stipend
allocation
payment
subsidy
grant
Antonyms:
penalty
debit
disallowance
forfeit
Examples:
It's
allowanced
here, you know.
But one must make
allowances
.
'I shall require no demd
allowance
.
Etymology:
Originally from the Old French word
alouance
meaning
payment
or
allocation
, and derived from Medieval Latin
allocare
, meaning
to allocate
.
Usage Statistics:
55 mentions per 1 million words
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