| 单词 | allowance |
| 释义 | allowance (once / 422 pages) nv When you're a kid, you might earn an allowance or a sum of money in exchange for doing chores around the house. Your parents' allowance — or tolerance — of your silly behavior will depend on how strict they are. An allowance is a quantity of something that's allowed or permitted within a set of rules or for a particular purpose. This could be a weekly allowance you earn as a kid, or it could be the allowance for passengers on a flight to have two carry-on items. To make allowances for someone means to treat someone leniently, or to give them a break. WORD FAMILYallowance: allowanced, allowances, allowancing+/allow: allowable, allowance, allowed, allowing, allows, disallow/allowable: allowably/disallow: disallowed, disallowing, disallows USAGE EXAMPLESToday, the city is expanding allowances for creative office space in its Central City 2035 plan, recently approved by Portland’s city council. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) That typically requires $100-per-day travel allowances that drive up project costs. Reuters(Dec 29, 2016) The Saudi spokesman, Mr. Qusayer, said that the current total for annual allowances did not exceed 10 billion riyals, or $2.7 billion. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1n the act of allowing He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room Hypo|Hyper tolerance the act of tolerating something lenience, leniencylightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers license, permission, permit the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization 2n an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) travel allowance my weekly allowance of two eggs a child's allowance should not be too generous Hypo|Hyper privy purse allowance for a monarch's personal expenses part, percentage, portion, share assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group 3n a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses Hypo|Hyper per diem a daily allowance for living expenses (especially while traveling in connection with your job) travel allowance, travel reimbursementa sum allowed for travel mileagea travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled reimbursement compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc. 4n an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances an allowance for profit Syn|Hypo|Hyper adjustment cost-of-living allowance an allowance for changes in the consumer price index depreciation allowancean allowance for loss due to depreciation deduction, discountan amount or percentage deducted seasonal adjustmenta statistical adjustment made to accommodate predictable fluctuations as a function of the season of the year tarean adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods trade discounta discount from the list price of a commodity allowed by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a merchant recompense payment or reward (as for service rendered) 5n a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets Syn|Hyper allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve reserve account, reserve fund funds taken out of earnings to provide for anticipated future payments 6n a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits Syn|Hyper leeway, margin, tolerance disagreement, discrepancy, divergence, variance a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions 7v put on a fixed allowance, as of food Hyper allow, grant let have |
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