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▸ 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.
Similar:
adjustment,
tolerance,
margin,
leeway,
allowance account,
valuation account,
valuation reserve,
allowment,
giveness,
granting,
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