allowance

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Multiple purchases can be made during the assigned two-day window until the maximum ticket allowance has been reached.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Your father made sure you earned your allowance, and you got your first sense of what it was like to contribute to the household and — critically — be a stakeholder.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

Ministers are therefore going to increase the basic allowance by 6.2% in April - well above inflation – and have plans to do so for every year until 2029/30.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

In the Budget, the chancellor said the annual tax-free allowance for cash Isas will be reduced from £20,000 to £12,000 for people under the age of 65.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

During this time Robert's mother had settled an allowance on him, about three hundred dollars a month.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway