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"Allowance" in German?

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"Allowance" in German : Beihilfe

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Pronunciation : Al*low"ance
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OF. alouance.]
Definition : 1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] Crabbe.

2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

3. Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.

4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] Locke.

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. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.

6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

7. (com.)

Defn: A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.


Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Al*low"ance
Part of Speech : v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing.]
Etymology : [See Allowance, n.]
Definition : Defn: 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.


Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

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