单词 | personal allowance |
释义 | > as lemmaspersonal allowance personal allowance n. (a) a sum of money given to cover personal expenses, or for personal use; (b) a person's tax allowance. ΚΠ 1796 W. Moss Liverpool Guide 121 The Mayor..has a personal allowance of 800l. a year for private contingences. 1880 St. Joseph (Mich.) Herald 8 May 1/6 Her personal allowance was a hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year, but she was perpetually running in debt. 1920 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 83 88 Abatements and personal allowances reduce this large total to a ‘net income paying tax’ of only 14,750,000l. 1977 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 13 June 73 They estimate Zhitkov earns at least 1,000 rubles a month when all his personal allowances are included. 2002 Which? Tax Saving Guide 21/1 You can ask your tax office to ‘split’ your personal allowance between both jobs, so that you don't pay tax on either of them. < as lemmas |
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