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Synonyms for allowance
əˈlaʊ ənsal·lowance

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  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

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. allowancenoun

    Synonyms:
    permission, leave, license, permit, authorization, connivance, sanction, authority, approbation, sufferance

  2. allowancenoun

    Synonyms:
    admission, acknowledgment, concession, assent

  3. allowancenoun

    Synonyms:
    stipend, salary, pay, hire, wages, remuneration, recompense, commission, EXHIBITION, PITTANCE

  4. allowancenoun

    Synonyms:
    qualification, modification, extenuation, limitation, exception

  5. allowancenoun

    Synonyms:
    ration, stated quantity (of food or drink)

  6. allowanceverb

    Synonyms:
    put upon allowance, limit in the supply of food

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How to use allowance in a sentence?

  1. Van Horn:

    To consume all of those recommended foods encompasses the vast majority of their calorie allowance leaving very few' discretionary' or empty sugary calories without causing weight gain.

  2. Jack Kent Cooke:

    The guy Haberkorn — who is a professional personal injury lawyer — did a number on me, then he looked me up, found out who my dad is, and saw dollar signs when he learned my name. He assumed I was a billionaire, which I’m not, i live on a budget like anyone else, I get a monthly allowance, I am not shopping on Madison Avenue, I take the subway, and I am very frugal. I am not Paris Hilton.

  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. 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.


Translations for allowance

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  • بدلArabic
  • отстъпка, вземане предвид, разрешение, признаване, позволение, допусканеBulgarian
  • ErlaubnisGerman
  • toleranciaSpanish
  • کمک هزینهPersian
  • määräraha, varaus, päiväraha, salliminen, annosFinnish
  • pension alimentaireFrench
  • cuibhreannScottish Gaelic
  • sgravio, delibera, razione, permesso, concessione, attenuanteItalian
  • קצבהHebrew
  • 給与, こずかいJapanese
  • toestemmingDutch
  • ଅନୁମତିOriya
  • kieszonkowePolish
  • abonoPortuguese
  • приня́тие, посо́бие, призна́ние, до́пуск, разреше́ние, попра́вка, позволе́ние, льго́та, ски́дка, приня́тие во внима́ние, допуще́ниеRussian
  • tillåtelseSwedish
  • கொடுப்பனவுTamil
  • الاؤنسUrdu
  • 津贴Chinese

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