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as in portion
something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group
as the war progressed, each family's allowance of sugar and flour was reduced
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as in permission
the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something
without the official allowance of the school board, no organization can hold its meetings on school property
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Recent Examples of allowance
The program has different investment thresholds with different allowances.
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Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
There are some unlockables that grant permanent upgrades, such as access to different sites of the manor that can grant temporary bonuses, or even an allowance so Simon starts each day with some coins in his pocket.
—Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
After the second round came a job offer: $26 an hour plus a daily expense allowance.
—Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 1 Apr. 2025
The wages associated with many players - fancifully mooted - as potential part exchange chips are likely to have wages that would immediately eat into Newcastle’s PSR allowance.
—David Ornstein, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allowance
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Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.—
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Colorado’s collared gray wolves continued to travel widely last month — even roaming in watersheds that reach into the western portions of metro Denver, according to a new map released this week by state wildlife officials.—
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Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi has rescinded the Garland policy — which was widely considered a win for the protection of the free press — and granted permission to federal investigators to once again pursue communications from journalists during government leak investigations.—
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Closing off access to beaches in the area has required SpaceX to inform and attain permission from authorities in Cameron County, the southernmost county in Texas.—
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All 20 clubs earn an equal share of £86.9million ($115.8m) through domestic and international broadcasting rights and a further £8.2m via commercial income.—
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Hassabis, for his part, won a share of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on Alphafold—an AI system that can predict the 3D structures of proteins, and which has turbocharged biomedical research.—
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Universities and the government use the database to track foreign students and students rely on it for their authorization to remain in the country.—
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Synthetic Food Dyes to Be Phased Out The FDA plans to revoke authorization of two synthetic food colorings—Citrus Red No. 2 and Orange B—within the next few months.—
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Containment is part of a larger plan for managing a wildfire.—
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Their appeal is one of three religious rights cases the Supreme Court is deciding in the coming weeks, and could be part of a recent trend of the court siding with religious rights advocates.—
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In one controversial use case, UK rail operator Network Rail reportedly sent video data of passengers to Amazon’s emotional analytics service without gathering their consent.—
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Customers were also allegedly enrolled without their consent and were charged before the billing date.—
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If a country sets hunting quotas to manage wolf populations, for example, individual farmers would be allowed to cull wolves in their area.—
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As a long-term project, working to create tradeable property rights in U.S. fisheries quotas through the empowerment of U.S. fishing communities and the reduction of federal regulatory micromanagement.—
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Even if the seizure of Taiwan does not lead to a wider regional confrontation, any number of powerful economic actors in the global North might impose sanctions that would hurt China, and Asia more broadly.—
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Putin’s biggest concern is that Trump will blame Russia, bolster US support for Kyiv and impose tough new economic sanctions on Moscow, spelling an end to the potential benefits of a reconfiguration of US-Russia relations.—
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“Allowance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allowance. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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