Usually means: Permitting something to happen or exist.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word allowing:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. allowing: Merriam-Webster
  2. allowing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. allowing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Allowing, allowing: Wordnik
  5. allowing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. allowing: Wiktionary
  7. Allowing, allowing: Dictionary.com
  8. allowing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Allowing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Allowing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. allowing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. allowing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. allowing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allowing: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allowing: Idioms

(Note: See allow as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (allow)

verb:  (ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.
verb:  (transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
verb:  To not bar or obstruct.
verb:  (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
verb:  (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
verb:  (transitive) To make an allowance, to take into account when making plans.
verb:  (transitive) To render physically possible.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
verb:  (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
verb:  (law, transitive) To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).
verb:  (transitive, MTE, MLE) To forgo bothering with, to let slide.
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