wikipedia
English

Etymology
OF. alouance

Pronunciation
IPA|/��la��ns/, SAMPA|/@"laU@ns/

Noun
en-noun

1. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

#: Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --Shak.

1. Acknowledgment.

#: The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak.

1. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.

#: I can give the boy a handsome allowance. --Thackeray.

1. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

#: After making the largest allowance for fraud. --Macaulay.

1. (commercial) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

Translations
trans-top|The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance
Finnish: salliminen
trans-mid
German: Erlaubnis f
Swedish: tillåtelse
trans-bottom

trans-top|Acknowledgment
trans-mid
trans-bottom

trans-top|That which is allowed
Finnish: määräraha
trans-mid
Japanese: 給� (kyūyo); ���� (kozukai)
trans-bottom

trans-top|Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
trans-mid
trans-bottom

trans-top|A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods
Dutch: toestemming
French: pension alimentaire m
trans-mid
Irish: airgead póca m
Polish: kieszonkowe n
trans-bottom

webster

ar:allowance
de:allowance
fa:allowance
fr:allowance
io:allowance
id:allowance
it:allowance
hu:allowance
pl:allowance
pt:allowance
fi:allowance
ta:allowance
te:allowance
vi:allowance
zh:allowance

• 2007-10-16 22:43 - Interwicket - iwiki +fi

Full Revision History