0 money that you are given regularly, especially to pay for a particular thing: --
1 to prepare for the possibility of: --
2 To make allowances for someone is to think about their characteristics and not judge them too severely: --
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: --
Employees relocating to London receive a maximum allowance of £1000 a year.
an allowance for sth/to do sth Some companies will even give their telecommuting executives an allowance to buy office furniture for their home.
an accommodation/car/mileage allowance
5 an amount of something that someone is allowed to have, use, produce, etc.: --
They protested over immediate or relatively shortterm issues like ad hoc demands over wage hikes, holidays, dismissals or restoration of allowances.
We undertook all calculations both without and with allowance for (individual) heterogeneity.
Co-payments tend to be calculated in a way that combines a flat rate depending on the long-term care allowance and an income-related part.
Still, he did propose the introduction of children's allowances as one key element in the social security framework.
These expressions contain allowance for two effects not normally included in investigations of the average stress in a suspension.
First, it is a limited child allowance programme for the poor that tries to replicate similar programmes in other industrialised nations.
Recent reforms to maternity allowances have equally credited in low earners (albeit with different rules).
But allowance has to be made for a certain amount of settling old scores.
