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Noun allowance has 6 senses
- allowance - 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"
--1 is a kind of share, portion, part, percentage
--1 has particulars: privy purse
- allowance - a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
--2 is a kind of reimbursement
--2 has particulars: travel allowance
- allowance, adjustment - an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit"
--3 is a kind of recompense
--3 has particulars:
- allowance, leeway, margin, tolerance - a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
--4 is a kind of discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance
- valuation reserve, valuation account, allowance, allowance account - a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
--5 is a kind of reserve account, reserve fund
- allowance - the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom"
--6 is a kind of license, permission, permit
--6 has particulars: tolerance
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