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      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.
      Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person.
      Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
      Acknowledgment.
      Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
      (commerce) A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.
      (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
      (engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
      (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
      (obsolete) Approval; approbation.
      (obsolete) License; indulgence.
      verb
      (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
      (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
      Words related to allowances
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