Antonyms for allowance
əˈlaʊ ənsal·lowance

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1. allowancenoun

   An allowance is a stipulated amount furnished at regular intervals as a matter of discretion or gratuity, as of food to besieged soldiers, or of money to a child or ward. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done. Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance. Recompense is a still wider and loftier word, with less suggestion of calculation and market value; there are services for which affection and gratitude are the sole and sufficient recompense; earnings, fees, hire, pay, salary, and wages are forms of compensation and may be included in compensation, remuneration, or recompense. Pay is commercial and strictly signifies an exact pecuniary equivalent for a thing or service, except when the contrary is expressly stated, as when we speak of "high pay" or "poor pay." Wages denotes what a worker receives. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital. Hire is distinctly mercenary or menial, but as a noun has gone out of popular use, tho the verb to hire is common. Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.

   Synonyms:
   compensation, earnings, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, recompense, remuneration, requital, salary, stipend, wages

Matched Categories

1. • Allow
   • Recompense
   • Reimbursement
   • Reserve Account
   • Share

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. allowancenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   tolerance, valuation account, leeway, allowance account, valuation reserve, adjustment, margin

2. allowancenoun

   a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses

   Synonyms:
   tolerance, valuation account, leeway, allowance account, valuation reserve, adjustment, margin

3. allowance, adjustmentnoun

   an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances

   "an allowance for profit"

   Synonyms:
   modification, accommodation, readjustment, leeway, allowance account, adaptation, alteration, adaption, valuation account, fitting, margin, adjustment, registration, tolerance, valuation reserve

4. allowance, leeway, margin, tolerancenoun

   a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

   Synonyms:
   perimeter, leeway, allowance account, security deposit, permissiveness, gross profit margin, gross profit, valuation account, margin, adjustment, border, tolerance, valuation reserve

5. valuation reserve, valuation account, allowance, allowance accountnoun

   a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets

   Synonyms:
   leeway, allowance account, valuation account, margin, adjustment, tolerance, valuation reserve

6. allowanceverb

   the act of allowing

   "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"

   Synonyms:
   tolerance, valuation account, leeway, allowance account, valuation reserve, adjustment, margin

7. allowanceverb

   put on a fixed allowance, as of food

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. allowancenoun

   Antonyms:
   disallowance, prohibition, refusal, injunction, embargo

   Synonyms:
   permission, concession, admittance, authorization, sanction, tolerance, sufferance, connivance, leave, assent, extenuation, discount, rebate, deduction, annuity, tontine, stipend, alimony

How to use allowance in a sentence?

1. Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary:

   Our people don't want to be registered with Danish unions because the Danish collective agreement -- which has been such a success on world-leading Danish airlines like Cimber Air, Sterling, Maersk, all of whom bestride the aviation globe as international colossi -- would require us to cut their pay, our pay is higher than the Danish collective agreement, but we would have to then pay for things like their underwear -- they have an underwear allowance because that's what's in the Danish collective agreement -- and, frankly, our pilots and cabin crew would rather buy their own knickers as long as we pay them more money.

2. Holly Madison:

   He said it made him jealous, and he would appreciate it if I quit my job, so instead, we were given $1,000 a week as an allowance.

3. European Central Bank:

   A number of reservations were expressed with regard to the proposed increase in the borrowing allowance to 60%, related, in particular, to concerns that it would make banks increasingly dependent on the Eurosystem, against this background, broad agreement was reached to raise the borrowing allowance to 55% of the stock of eligible loans.

4. Sandra Wells:

   I doubt every single view is buying a toy, but it influences what they want for Christmas and birthdays, and if they get (an) allowance.

5. William Osler:

   Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

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