Found 4 items, similar to Allowance.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: allowance tunjangan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: allowance infak, izin, potongan, tunjangan, uang bantuan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: allowance allowance n 1: an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period); “travel allowance”; “my weekly allowance of two eggs”; “a child's allowance should not be too generous” 2: a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses 3: an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; “an allowance for profit” [syn: adjustment] 4: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits [syn: leeway, margin, tolerance] 5: a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets [syn: valuation reserve, valuation account, allowance account ] 6: the act of allowing; “He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom” v : put on a fixed allowance, as of food
English → English (gcide) Definition: Allowance Allowance \Al*low"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing.] [See Allowance, n.] To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced. [1913 Webster] Allowance \Al*low"ance\, n. [OF. alouance.] 1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] --Crabbe. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. [1913 Webster] Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Acknowledgment. [1913 Webster] The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] --Locke. [1913 Webster] 5. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. [1913 Webster] I can give the boy a handsome allowance. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. [1913 Webster] After making the largest allowance for fraud. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. [1913 Webster]