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allowance

substantivoverbocorrente nos diálogos

  • Canadá//əˈlaʊɪns//
  • //əˈlaʊəns//

Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

substantivo

  1. 1

    Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

    you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance

    The colossal stupidity of the one-party strategy has had three disastrous effects: the nurturance of right-wing Republican homophobes, the weakening and silencing of pro-gay, progressive Republicans, and the allowance of lacklustrer^([sic]), liberal Democrats to exploit us at their will and ignore us at their convenience.

  2. 2

    Acknowledgment.

    The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.

  3. 3

    An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.

    her meagre allowance of food or drink

    Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.

  4. 4

    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.

    She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

    Some persons averred that Sir Pitt Crawley gave his brother a handsome allowance.

  5. 5

    Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.

    to make allowance for his naivety

    After making the largest allowance for fraud.

  6. 6

    A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.

    Minus the allowance, the total came to thirteen tons.

  7. 7

    A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.

    On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.

  8. 8

    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. 9

    obsoletoApproval; approbation.

    […]gave allowance where he needed none

  10. 10

    obsoletoLicense; indulgence.

    this Allowance for their Transgressions

  11. 11

    A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.

Etimologia

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin laus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin laudō Latin allaudō Old French aloer ▲ Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *stel-der. Proto-Italic *stlokos? Old Latin stlocus Latin locus ▲ Latin -ō Latin locō Latin allocō Old French aloer Old French alouer Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -āntia Old French -ance Old French alouancebor. Middle English allouance English allowance From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance. Morphologically allow + -ance.

verbo

  1. 1

    To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).

    The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.

  2. 2

    To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

    Our provisions were allowanced.

Formas

plural
allowances
pretérito
allowanced
particípio passado
allowanced
gerúndio
allowancing
3.ª pessoa do singular
allowances
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Conteúdo lexical proveniente do Wiktionary, sob licença CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origem · Versão dos dados 2026-08-23

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