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allowance

[uh-lau-uhns] / əˈlaʊ əns /




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There is the annual £20,000 Isa allowance, and an annual savings allowance of £1,000 for basic rate taxpayers and £500 for higher-rate taxpayers.

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

This would take the payment above the £12,570 personal tax allowance and therefore be liable for income tax if no changes are made.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Do I need to keep detailed records of every expense, or would the university’s published allowance and proof of rent and utility payments generally be sufficient?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

“And there’s no allowance if I don’t tell Papa you’ve earned it.”

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Read what else is in the Budget - from fuel duty to Isa allowances.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

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

Dr. Wells’s replies revolve around small-town practicalities, insurance allowances, and the tried-and-true methods employed by Mercy Hospital.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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

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

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

I also cut about three or four pounds off a flitch of bacon that hung in the chimney corner, nicely marked to prevent any being lost on account of my late allowanced state.

From The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns by George Nugent-Bankes

Then don't you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.'

From The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

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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