- plural of allowance.
allowances
Example Sentences
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"As a rule, insurance firms won't make allowances for 'disinclination to travel'," Boland says.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The ETS forces heavy polluters to pay for the greenhouse gases they emit, obliging them to buy allowances that are capped in number, sold in auctions and tradable.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The rules on the use of European Parliament allowances are notoriously vague, and there’s conceivably overlap between how a political party carries out its national and European mandates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The program will now include a new mechanism, the manufacturing decarbonization incentive, that allows polluters to apply for and receive up to 118 million new allowances in exchange for investments in decarbonization projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
I knew Mom was opposed to welfare, but those kids got food stamps and clothing allowances.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
