What are some opposite words for allowance?
Antonyms for allowance
əˈlaʊ ənsal·lowance
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term allowance.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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
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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"
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tolerance, valuation account, leeway, allowance account, valuation reserve, adjustment, marginallowancenoun
a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
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tolerance, valuation account, leeway, allowance account, valuation reserve, adjustment, marginallowance, adjustmentnoun
an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
"an allowance for profit"
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modification, accommodation, readjustment, leeway, allowance account, adaptation, alteration, adaption, valuation account, fitting, margin, adjustment, registration, tolerance, valuation reserveallowance, leeway, margin, tolerancenoun
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
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perimeter, leeway, allowance account, security deposit, permissiveness, gross profit margin, gross profit, valuation account, margin, adjustment, border, tolerance, valuation reservevaluation 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
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leeway, allowance account, valuation account, margin, adjustment, tolerance, valuation reserveallowanceverb
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, marginallowanceverb
put on a fixed allowance, as of food
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
allowancenoun
Antonyms:
disallowance, prohibition, refusal, injunction, embargoSynonyms:
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?
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.
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.
Saki:
Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Most kids his age, they’re saving their allowance to buy video games or something to play with. But for him to save up to buy snacks and pizza for us, that was just really awesome.
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
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