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allowance

[uh-lau-uhns] / əˈlaʊ əns /




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Customers who get PIP and are classed as having limited mobility can lease a car for no cash upfront—they simply forgo about £320 a month of “enhanced mobility” allowance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“While much remains to be seen, its clearest differentiator is its industry-leading output allowance of 1 million tokens,” Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney wrote in a note to clients.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

When Matt Trivella of Boston was younger, returning a computer joystick that he bought with his allowance was so satisfying that the moment became a formative experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

For example, a 58-year-old who has worked since leaving school but has been made redundant would keep the full allowance up to state pension age.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"I brought some coins from my allowance," she explained.

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene

Lecornu has said the draft law could allow compensation payments to be recovered from family allowances and housing benefits while ensuring a minimum income.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The pay packages also typically include car allowances and bonus opportunities, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

This allows companies to decide whether they would rather reduce their emissions or pay for allowances to cover them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

In the current epidemic, driven by the rare Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no approved vaccine, those workers haven’t been paid their Ebola-response allowances for weeks, according to the WHO and local aid officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

And she calculated needing that long to save her weekly allowances.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

I'm allowanced off an' I've got t' eat on'y what he gives me—that's in our contrac'.

From The Missing Link by Edward Dyson

Onct a week dey would come and dey allowanced 'em out pervisions.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

The poor dog, thus allowanced, must have been sorry that he ever joined us.

From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore

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


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