allowance
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He saved all his birthday money and every allowance since he was 7 years old, knowing he would one day want to buy a car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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
Successive Thai governments have debated raising a universal old-age allowance that currently amounts to between $18 and $35 a month, but eventually discarded the idea for cost reasons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Prosper's allowance hadn't lasted long, and after the second night Bo had already started coughing so badly that Prosper had taken him by the hand to go and find a policeman.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
In a letter seen by BBC News NI, the body expressed concern to Stormont's communities minister that local councils "will not be as effective" unless allowances and conditions improve.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
They are usually non-refundable, with limitations on checked-luggage allowances and the opportunities to collect miles.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Throughout their 20s, both men lived off allowances and inheritances from their families.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
To support the transition, companies receive some free allowances, but these are gradually reduced and were initially due to disappear by 2034.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Within a few minutes, some of us had more money than we had been able to accumulate in a year of cottage allowances.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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
Accordingly I allowanced my men two pounds of beads monthly, and they went to distant villages and purchased their own provisions independently of me.
From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Sir Samuel White Baker
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
Then don't you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.'
From The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
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
The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
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Christopher Columbus' Diary: The First Voyage
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