allowance
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The company said the allowance serves to enhance executives’ understanding of its businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Another common perk is a company-provided car or a car allowance, which can include free fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Burnham told the Times over the weekend that the "frustration about the personal allowance" he had heard while campaigning in the Makerfield by-election was "lodged in my mind".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Those close to Burnham have since told BBC News that any changes to the personal allowance are not part of his initial plan to tackle the cost of living.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
“I have some money saved,” I tell him, “from allowance and odd jobs and stuff.”
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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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
The changes would mean some industries could obtain emission allowances until 2038 instead of 2034, if they commit to investing in decarbonisation efforts.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
But such challenges are fundamental, and the sympathetic ear makes allowances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The answer will primarily center around its environmental impact — and whether giving away new free allowances will lead to fossil fuel pollution or air pollution that otherwise would not happen, Elkind said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Mr. Kreuk uses the ration allowances of the dead to stock up on supplies, then resells them at higher prices.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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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
Further, I was told that tea, coffee, and sugar are roughly allowanced to each family.
From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Nordhoff, Charles
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 Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell
The poor dog, thus allowanced, must have been sorry that he ever joined us.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Gillmore, Parker
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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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 Glasse, Henry
The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by White, William Allen
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Christopher Columbus' Diary: The First Voyage
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