allowance Význam & definícia

Význam allowance v slovenčine

• 0 money that you are given regularly, especially to pay for a particular thing:

  • The perks of the job include a company pension and a generous travel allowance.

  • I couldn't have managed at college if I hadn't had an allowance from my parents.

  • The baggage/luggage allowance for most flights is 20 kilos.

• 1 to prepare for the possibility of:

  • We should make allowance for bad weather and have plenty of umbrellas available.

• 2 To make allowances for someone is to think about their characteristics and not judge them too severely:

  • You should make allowances for him - he's been quite ill recently.

  • "This is a poor piece of work." "Yes, but you should make allowances for the fact that she's only seven."

• 3 the amount of something available or needed for a particular purpose:

  • What is the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A?

• 4 money that someone is given regularly by their employer or by the government to pay for a particular thing:

  • an accommodation/car/mileage allowance

  • an allowance for sth/to do sth Some companies will even give their telecommuting executives an allowance to buy office furniture for their home.

  • Employees relocating to London receive a maximum allowance of £1000 a year.

• 5 an amount of something that someone is allowed to have, use, produce, etc.:

  • baggage/luggage allowance Baggage allowance is 2 free bags per passenger, and $80 per additional bag.

  • In Europe nearly all of the valuable emission allowances - permits that each allow one ton of emissions - were given away to power companies.

• 6 an amount of goods that you are allowed to buy and take into another country before you have to start paying tax:

  • The Australian Customs Service will not charge you duty or tax on goods you bring in if they are within the duty-free allowance guidelines.

• 7 an amount of money that can be taken off your income before the tax owed is calculated:

  • a tax allowance

  • a personal/married couple's/single person's allowance

  • an annual allowance

• 8 an amount of money that can be taken off a company's profits before the tax owed is calculated:

  • The purchaser of assets can claim allowances on certain items such as plant and machinery.

• 9 the fact of planning or paying now for a possible future change in a situation or a possible future cost, or the amount that is planned for:

  • make an allowance for sth It is unlikely that the regulator will make any allowance for falls in customer service caused by a strike.

  • They made a 10% allowance for bad debt.

  • The company will extend existing health-plan contracts and their pricing for eight years, with allowances for inflation.

• 10 a special arrangement, such as a lower price, that manufacturers offer to stores which are going to sell their products:

  • When selling a new product, manufacturers sometimes give retailers an allowance, for example a sale or return agreement.