- an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period);
"travel allowance" "my weekly allowance of two eggs" "a child's allowance should not be too generous"
- a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
- an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances;
"an allowance for profit"
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
- the act of allowing;
"He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"
