allows

verb

(transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.

To not bar or obstruct.

(ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.

(transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion.

(transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

(transitive) To make an allowance, to take into account when making plans.

(transitive) To render physically possible.

(law, transitive) To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).

(transitive, MTE, MLE) To forgo bothering with, to let slide.

(transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

(obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.

(transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

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