Definizione monolingua

allowance

allowance (plural allowances)

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

   Without the kings will or the states allowance. --William Shakespeare

2. Acknowledgment.

   The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --William Shakespeare

3. 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. -- William Makepeace Thackeray.

4. 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. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.

5. (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
6. A childs allowance; pocket money.

   She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

Definizione dizionario allowance

	indennità
	Regular allocation or deduction of money.

abbuono

assegnazione

assegno

autorizzazione

permesso

razione

riduzione

risarcimento danni

sconto

tolleranza

Altri significati:

A child's allowance; pocket money.

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

abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances

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

consideration (for others)

acknowledgment

Acknowledgment.

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

common difference (in math.)

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.

a customary deduction from the gross weight of goods

the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance

that which is allowed