Usually means: Money given regularly for expenses.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word allowance:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. allowance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. allowance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. allowance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. allowance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. allowance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Allowance, allowance: Wordnik
  7. allowance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. allowance: Wiktionary
  9. allowance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. allowance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. allowance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. allowance: Dictionary.com
  13. allowance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Allowance (engineering), Allowance (money), Allowance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Allowance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. allowance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. allowance: Rhymezone
  18. allowance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. allowance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Allowance (child's): American-Britih Dictionary
  21. allowance: Free Dictionary
  22. allowance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. allowance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. allowance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. allowance: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. allowance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. ALLOWANCE: Accounting Glossary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. allowance: Legal dictionary
  7. allowance: Financial dictionary
  8. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allowance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. allowance: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allowance: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allowance: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Allowance: Gambling Glossary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. ALLOWANCE: Glossary on Terminology related to Nuts and Bolts
  3. Allowance(s): Construction Glossary

(Note: See allowanced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
noun:  Acknowledgment.
noun:  An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose
noun:  Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
noun:  (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
noun:  (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
noun:  A child's allowance; pocket money.
noun:  (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
noun:  (obsolete) Approval; approbation.
noun:  (obsolete) License; indulgence.
noun:  (engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
verb:  (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
verb:  (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

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