Synonym: allotment, budget, fee, grant, portion, ration. Similar words: chancellor, rowan, now and then, now and again, every now and then, allow, hallow, fallow. Meaning: [-əns] 
n. 1. an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) 2. a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses 3. an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances 4. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits 5. a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets 6. the act of allowing. v. put on a fixed allowance, as of food.
n. 1. an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) 2. a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses 3. an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances 4. a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits 5. a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets 6. the act of allowing. v. put on a fixed allowance, as of food. 
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121. As with the personal allowance, older people enjoy a more generous married couple's allowance.
122. About four in 10 companies provide rented accommodation but only a fifth provide a housing allowance.
123. During the waiting days your pay will consist of the sickness allowance.
124. Besides this, employees receive an additional taxable transfer allowance of ￡526 paid in three instalments over 16 months.
125. Much more complicated is how to make allowance for price differences which reflect different qualities of goods.
126. It is easy to forget exactly how much allowance should be made for the wind and other factors on a rough day.
127. You may wish to retain your pension or allowance book and continue to draw your own money.
128. Is there any allowance made for long-term illness? or for condoned truancy?
129. Managing an allowance helps children feel positive about their ability to take care of themselves.
130. Registered blind people can claim an allowance of ￡1,080 a year.
131. To back this up we provide subsidised nurseries and a dependent care allowance to those whose hours change at short notice.
132. An extra allowance for tying in new colours on intarsia patterns can also be entered.
133. Isabella was sentenced to lose all her lands, but was given an allowance of ￡3,000 a year to maintain her estate.
134. Although her father gave her an allowance, within six months of starting work Kate could have managed without it.
135. Buying school supplies, she said, took a big bite out of her allowance.
136. She hung on for two years, existing on fees for supervising undergraduates and an allowance from her father.
137. My child allowance is approximately thirty-seven pounds a month so mum keeps seven pounds and I have thirty.
138. Single employees who do not own property receive an allowance at a lower rate, paid for just one year.
139. Single person's allowance up ￡90 to ￡2425; married man's allowance up to ￡3795.
140. If you are admitted to hospital for in-patient treatment, your allowance can continue for up to twelve weeks.
141. Businesses will be able to disclaim all or any part of the initial allowance if they wish.
142. When will he announce an enhanced hill livestock compensatory allowance?
143. He may revert to an attendance allowance by further written notice.
144. The mobility allowance amounted initially to ￡10 a week and was recognised as anything but adequate.
145. It calls for the invalid care allowance to be increased and extended in the budget.
146. Opposition Members want us to forbid the use of that personal allowance, if only in part, for a particular purpose.
146. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
147. Your annual leave allowance will be 22 days with pay.
148. There is a slight allowance for error in the projected costs.
149. A certain amount of your pension or allowance is yours to buy personal items like clothes, shoes and toiletries.
150. Old Crumwallis won't notice I've had more than his miserly allowance.
More similar words: chancellor, rowan, now and then, now and again, every now and then, allow, hallow, fallow, wallow, tallow, callow, mallow, sallow, allow of, yellow, swallow, billow, shallow, fellow, follow, hollow, bellow, pillow, gallows, willow, allow in, allow for, mellow, hallowed, disallow.