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allowance

[uh-lau-uhns] / əˈlaʊ əns /




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Synchrony’s allowance for credit losses as a percentage of quarter-end loan receivables fell to 10.01% in the third quarter from 10.35% a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

His administration last month announced an increase to Bolsa Familia, Lula's flagship allowance for poor families, which came into effect this week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 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

He has been able to concentrate his water irrigation allowance on the land he still farms, and he has stopped losing sleep over rises in the price of things such as diesel and fertiliser.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"There's more than a hundred dollars here. You give your son that kind of allowance?"

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Upper secondary teachers in France last year on average earned the equivalent of $69,000 annually, bonuses and allowances included, according to the OECD.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The legislation was limited because of complaints by mortgage servicers that many mortgage contracts and guidelines do not have allowances for state-declared emergencies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

B&Q said the underpayments were unintentional and the result of calculations involving geographical allowances, while Five Guys blamed "technical differences in how payroll regulations were applied".

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

“We’ve been saving our allowances for months,” Rita said.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

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 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

We found sugar scarce; butter scarce, and bread sharply allowanced in hotels and restaurants.

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

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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