1
as in portion
something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group
as the war progressed, each family's allowance of sugar and flour was reduced
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2
as in permission
the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something
without the official allowance of the school board, no organization can hold its meetings on school property
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Recent Examples of allowance
However, this allowance has been scaled back to just one full shopping trip per month.
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Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Congress gives every new president an allowance of $100,000 to refurbish the private residence and the Oval Office.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
Instead, Combs insisted on paying her an allowance to keep her at his beck and call, her lawsuit claims.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
That prompted a third notice of allowance on Oct. 15, 2024, which is set to expire on Oct. 15, 2027.
—Bryan West, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
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Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Congress gives every new president an allowance of $100,000 to refurbish the private residence and the Oval Office.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
Instead, Combs insisted on paying her an allowance to keep her at his beck and call, her lawsuit claims.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
That prompted a third notice of allowance on Oct. 15, 2024, which is set to expire on Oct. 15, 2027.
—Bryan West, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allowance
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He’s also been incarcerated in isolation for a significant portion of his time, mostly as payback for publicly humiliating the Ohio Department of Corrections.—
Bob Guccione Jr.,
SPIN,
11 Feb. 2025
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Heavy snow of up to 9 inches was possible for portions of Central and Southern Delaware and Northeast Maryland.—
Joe Edwards,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Assign a basket for mail, a folder for permission slips, a place for backpacks and shoes, and a drawer or basket for chargers, keys, and sunglasses.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
16 Feb. 2025
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Here are some tips to make sure location tracking is kept to a minimum: App permissions Head to your phone’s control panel to check permissions.—
Kelvin Chan,
The Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2025
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At the same time, polling has shown that U.S. adults tend to overestimate the share of the federal budget that is spent on foreign aid.—
Linley Sanders,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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The bottom line is Bouchard is an exceptional NHL defenceman who has been on the good side of 50 percent goal share at five-on-five, delivered impressive scoring results and played brilliant hockey in last year’s playoffs.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Trump contends that efforts to limit local coordination on immigration shield violent criminals from deportation, although studies have found immigrants living in the country without authorization are not more likely to commit crimes than the general population.—
Grace Hase,
The Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2025
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Approved authorization to apply for a redevelopment grant from the state Department of Employment and Economic Development.—
Janean Sorrell,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Since the flight that crash landed in Toronto on Monday originated in the U.S., one of my colleagues wanted to know how much of a part the Federal Aviation Administration and the rest of the U.S. air traffic and safety system played in the incident.—
Zach Wichter,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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Velasquez was a 2nd round pick of the Philadelphia Phillies in 2010 Velasquez has parts of 9 years experience, with five different teams, most recently the Pittsburgh Pirates.—
Bernie Pleskoff,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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Human Services Advisory board At a county commission work session the same evening of Lancaster’s swearing-in ceremony Monday, Wortman questioned an upcoming consent agenda item that recommended Lancaster be appointed to the county’s Human Services Advisory Board.—
Nora O’Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Feb. 2025
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So then, consent has been manufactured in the media to dehumanize and discriminate against trans people.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
6 Feb. 2025
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Its concerns revolve around the possibility that these programs, including one requiring that at least half of producer and writing staff come from underrepresented groups, establish discriminatory hiring quotas.—
Winston Cho,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Feb. 2025
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Since Trump took office on Jan. 20, there have been raids in major U.S. cities and officials have issued daily quotas in an effort to increase immigration arrests as part of the administration’s deportation campaign.—
Victoria Valenzuela,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2025
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During the Biden administration, the U.S. imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Russian companies, imports, oligarchs and beyond.—
Avery Lotz,
Axios,
9 Feb. 2025
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Ahead of the summit, the United States warned of possible sanctions against Rwandan and Congolese officials, further raising the stakes for finding a solution to a conflict that is rooted in the long fallout from the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the struggle for control of Congo’s mineral resources.—
Reuters,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Allowance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allowance. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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