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She also gives Steven a monthly allowance, euphemistically listed in her records as a “stipend.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But Stormont ministers rejected the proposal, instead giving councillors a 5% increase, external in their basic annual allowance to more than £18,000.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

A per-visit system would pay the hospice provider for each visit rather than a monthly overall allowance that allows it to adjust care based on the needs of the patient.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

At Brunswick, maker of Sea Ray and Boston Whaler boats, executives and directors received a $35,000 annual allowance to spend on boat-related expenses and other products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

"My mom's always nagging me to spend my allowance on something useful," she says with a mischievous smile.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

They are usually non-refundable, with limitations on checked-luggage allowances and the opportunities to collect miles.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

A spokeswoman says fliers with status still get priority boarding, bag allowances and other perks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

"As a rule, insurance firms won't make allowances for 'disinclination to travel'," Boland says.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

This could mean free allowances being phased out more slowly and extended beyond 2034, provided companies commit to long term decarbonisation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

When Sarah and Daniel and I run through our allowances and ask to borrow money from our folks, we get a huge lecture, and then they make it a teachable moment.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

The first album I ever bought with my own money, allowanced saved up for weeks, was “Long Hard Climb.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2020

But the timber will be allowanced, and the land parcelled out, to each household according to its needs, as soon as either becomes scarce, as is already the case in Russia.

From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

"Months and months out of sight of land, and provisions running short, and allowanced as to water, and your mind communing with the mighty ocean, and all that sort of thing?"

From The Wind in the Willows by Paul Bransom

I’m allowanced by the doctor even in the matter o’ tea and coffee,” said the sergeant.

From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

On the other hand, they will not stand being allowanced for tea, sugar, butter, or anything of the kind, and as a rule they fare in exactly the same style as their masters.

From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny

The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.

From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

And when the larger wood begins to grow scarce, what course does the peasant adopt?—The allowancing of individuals.

From The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris by Henry Glasse