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table allowance
table allowance n.
Brit. 
/ˈteɪbl əˌlaʊəns/
, /ˈteɪbl əˌlaʊəns/U.S. /ˈteɪb(ə)l əˌlaʊəns/
, /ˈteɪb(ə)l əˌlaʊəns/West African English /ˈtebul aˌlauans/
now chiefly West African an allowance of money for provisions; cf. table money n. 3./ˈtebul aˌlauans/ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > for specific purpose > for food or maintenance
meatcorn1264
corrody1430
sustentation1461
dieta1483
diet-money1519
board wages1539
viaticum1594
subsistence money1693
table allowance1762
board-money1809
subsistence allowance1824
beer money1827
in-maintenance1836
subsistence allowance1848
conred1876
sustenance money1905
rider1975
1762 Anecd. Relative Affairs Germany 32 The extraordinary pension and table allowance given him.
1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) V. 577 I beg that you will draw a table allowance of thirty shillings a day.
1853 W. P. Robertson Visit to Mexico II. xxxv. 164 As director of this great mining concern, he receives a thousand a year, with five hundred a year more as table allowance.
1960 Parl. Deb. Ghana 19 225 It is proposed that Housing and Table allowances should remain substantially as at present.
1997 Africa News (Nexis) 30 Jan. They are proudly announcing that each Councilman should be receiving two-hundred thousand United States dollars as table allowance for the Christmas holidays.
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