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allowance

[uh-lou-uhns] / əˈlaʊ əns /




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Sir William Napier continued providing him with an annual allowance, and Byfield traveled to London when his longtime patron died in 1860.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

Should competing platforms adopt equivalent commitments, the overnight lockout would widen to 10 pm to 7 am and the daily allowance would fall to 60 minutes per app, capped at two hours in total.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Older adults with diabetes in Medicare Advantage plans don’t have better health than those with traditional Medicare, even with extra benefits like a grocery allowance or a gym membership.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

While he formally becomes a prince, he will not receive a royal allowance.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

He had had an allowance since he was ten, starting at five dollars per week and increasing steadily with inflation and age up to its current twenty dollars.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

We have agitated for paid parental leave, universal childcare, better public schools, child allowances, and other help for struggling parents.

From Slate Sep. 14, 2026

Last month, the EU proposed to keep more allowances on the market over the next 15 years to ease the impact on industry.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

In a letter seen by BBC News NI, the body expressed concern to Stormont's communities minister that local councils "will not be as effective" unless allowances and conditions improve.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

“My mum said we need to make allowances for you,” Lily finally said.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness

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

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

But the timber will be allowanced, and the land parcelled out, to each household according to its needs, as soon as either becomes scarce, as is already the case in Russia.

From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

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

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




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