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View definitions for allow for

allow for

verb as in take into account

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Forth Valley College Board of Management were due to make a decision on the future of the campus on 26 September but stood the meeting down to allow for further talks.

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The bill allows for some other properties to be exempt from the rent cap, and for rents to be increased above the rent cap in some cases.

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At the time, the company was nearing the end of a rebuild of the club's main stand at Tynecastle stadium - erecting a 120-metre steel beam and steelworks to allow for 2,000 more seats.

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He could, for example, cover for an injured Stokes and still allow for the inclusion of four seamers.

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In other words, Norris had not delivered on the potential of the car in qualifying, even allowing for slightly compromised circumstances.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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