1. allowance

noun. ['əˈlaʊəns'] an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period).

Rhymes with Allowance

• abeyance
• abhorrence
• absence
• abstinence
• abundance
• acceptance
• acceptance
• accordance
• acquaintance
• acquiescence
• adherence
• admittance
• adolescence
• adolescence
• adriance
• affluence
• agence
• allegiance
• alliance
• ambiance

How do you pronounce allowance?

Pronounce allowance as əˈlaʊəns.

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Sentences with allowance

1. Noun, singular or mass
But be sure to ask the airline how this will count toward your baggage allowance.

Quotes about allowance

1. The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
- David Storey

2. Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

2. allowance

noun. ['əˈlaʊəns'] a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.

3. allowance

noun. ['əˈlaʊəns'] a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses.

4. allowance

noun. ['əˈlaʊəns'] an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances.

5. allowance

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

6. allowance

noun. ['əˈlaʊəns'] the act of allowing.

7. allowance

verb. ['əˈlaʊəns'] put on a fixed allowance, as of food.