allowance

Before the financial crisis the personal allowance was much smaller than today, and it was allowed to grow until the pandemic hit.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The allowance will see your living costs partly covered by the government for the first year your business is operating.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Healey will explain this pledge will be met by plans for a new tax allowance for low-income pensioners.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

She was considering moving into an apartment for her sophomore year, and I had to work through complications about leases, providing an allowance and related expenses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Later, I’ll take my allowance and buy Kim a book.

From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Lower prices or more generous usage allowances need to translate into durable business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Lecornu has said the draft law could allow compensation payments to be recovered from family allowances and housing benefits while ensuring a minimum income.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The council has also agreed to continue discussions with the union on outstanding issues including lower-paid workers, allowances, unevaluated jobs, equality impacts and the operation of the new pay model.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Among Russell 3000 companies, the number of businesses reporting the same security allowances similarly rose, in this case from 7% in 2025 to 11%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

On top of that you must make allowances for distortions caused by variations in the Earth’s atmosphere, by intergalactic dust, contaminating light from foreground stars, and many other factors.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

"Months and months out of sight of land, and provisions running short, and allowanced as to water, and your mind communing with the mighty ocean, and all that sort of thing?"

From The Wind in the Willows by Paul Bransom

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

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

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