allowance
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They are disappointed by a reported margin guidance range of 14.5%-16.5%, but point out that this assumes catastrophe costs are in line with allowance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
She also gives Steven a monthly allowance, euphemistically listed in her records as a “stipend.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
It would take three weeks’ worth of allowance to be able to pay for twenty-two cream puffs.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
The agency will use its technology to identify conditions from the compassionate allowances list so that it can expedite claims processing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
A spokeswoman says fliers with status still get priority boarding, bag allowances and other perks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
The council's usual chair and vice-chair, David Moore and Debbie Darby, had already left the meeting because the discussion related to their allowances.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
One must make allowances for the years, and the speed with which babes-in-arms become boisterous ten-year-olds.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
Then don’t you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.”
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
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
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 Charles Nordhoff
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing allowance
Christopher Columbus' Diary: The First Voyage
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 16
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