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What does allowance mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting
  2. Acknowledgment.
  3. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity
  4. a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
  5. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
  6. (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries
  7. A child's allowance; pocket money.
  8. (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.
  9. (obsolete) approval; approbation
  10. (obsolete) license; indulgence
Verb
  1. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
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