allowment
/əˈlaʊm(ə)nt/noun
1The action of permitting or allowing something. Now rare.
2An allowance of money, food, etc., made to an individual or group; an allocation; a ration. Compare allowance. Now rare.
Origin
Late 16th century (in an earlier sense). From allow + -ment. Compare Anglo-Norman alowement permission.
- sequence of tenses
- sequencer
- sequent
- sequential
- sequential access
- sequential circuit
- sequentiality
- sequentially
- sequently
- sequester
- sequestered
- sequestrable
- sequestral
- sequestrate
- sequestration
- sequestrator
- sequestrectomy
- sequestrum
- sequin
- sequinned
- sequoia
- Sequoia National Park
- Sequoya
- Sequoyah
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