Allowance
noun
The amount of money that you are given regularly, especially to pay for a specific thing.
My parents give me a weekly allowance to cover my personal expenses.
Often appears as...
- monthly allowance
- weekly allowance
noun
A reduction in price.
The store gives an allowance for damaged goods.
Often appears as...
- trade-in allowance
- tax allowance
noun
A thing that is allowed or accepted in particular circumstances, especially less accurate measurements or standards.
A 5% allowance is granted for any possible errors in measurement.
Often appears as...
- measurement allowance
- error allowance
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Academic
noun
The money given to a member of the armed forces in addition to their pay to cover additional needs.
Servicemen posted overseas receive an overseas allowance.
Often appears as...
- overseas allowance
- subsistence allowance
noun
The amount of money that you are given regularly, especially to pay for a specific thing.
My parents give me a weekly allowance to cover my personal expenses.
Often appears as...
- monthly allowance
- weekly allowance
noun
A reduction in price.
The store gives an allowance for damaged goods.
Often appears as...
- trade-in allowance
- tax allowance
noun
A thing that is allowed or accepted in particular circumstances, especially less accurate measurements or standards.
A 5% allowance is granted for any possible errors in measurement.
Often appears as...
- measurement allowance
- error allowance
Usage tips
Academic
noun
The money given to a member of the armed forces in addition to their pay to cover additional needs.
Servicemen posted overseas receive an overseas allowance.
Often appears as...
- overseas allowance
- subsistence allowance
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Regular Payment
Allowance often refers to money given regularly, not just once.
She receives a monthly allowance from her scholarship.
Pro Tip 2/3Specific Use
The money is usually for specific expenses, like food or books.
His allowance covers transportation to school.
Pro Tip 3/3Financial Independence
Getting an allowance can teach budgeting and financial responsibility.
My allowance taught me to manage my weekly budget.
Pro Tip 1/3Regular Payment
Allowance often refers to money given regularly, not just once.
She receives a monthly allowance from her scholarship.
Pro Tip 2/3Specific Use
The money is usually for specific expenses, like food or books.
His allowance covers transportation to school.
Pro Tip 3/3Financial Independence
Getting an allowance can teach budgeting and financial responsibility.
My allowance taught me to manage my weekly budget.
Pro Tip 1/3Regular Payment
Allowance often refers to money given regularly, not just once.
She receives a monthly allowance from her scholarship.
Pro Tip 2/3Specific Use
The money is usually for specific expenses, like food or books.
His allowance covers transportation to school.
Pro Tip 3/3Financial Independence
Getting an allowance can teach budgeting and financial responsibility.
My allowance taught me to manage my weekly budget.
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Cameron Herold: Let's...
I remember that lesson to this day. Allowances teach kids the wrong habits. Allowances, by nature, are teaching kids to think about a job. An entrepreneur doesn't expect a regular paycheck. Allowance is breeding kids at a young age to expect a regular paycheck. That's wrong, for me, if you want to raise entrepreneurs.
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Agile programming -- for...
more control over their lives the point is we have to let our children succeed on their own terms and yes on occasion fail on their own terms I was talking to Warren Buffett's banker and he was chiding me for a lot letting my children make mistakes with their allowance and I said but what if they
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Let's raise kids to be...
remember that lesson to this day allowances teach kids the wrong habits allowances by nature teaching kids to think about a job an entrepreneur doesn't expect a regular paycheck allowance is breeding kids at a young age to expect a regular paycheck that's wrong for me if you want to raise
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Jackie Tabick: The...
And, of course, in the modern world, with the environmental movement, we're becoming even more aware of the connectivity of things, that something I do here actually does matter in Africa, that if I use too much of my carbon allowance, it seems to be that we are causing
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Tristram Stuart: The...
is the likely level of consumption with an allowance for certain levels of inevitable waste. There will always be waste. I'm not that unrealistic that I think we can live in a waste-free world. But that black line shows what a food supply should be
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Let’s put compassion...
a teenager and think that I might need to undergo some psychiatric testing let me remind you that I can't raise their allowance or extend their curfew and thankfully I don't have to get them out of bed in the morning but I do get to
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Ludwick Marishane: A...
with an allowance of 50 rand a week, I came up with a way for the world not to bathe. What's stopping you? I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet. And another key thing that I learned a lot throughout this whole process,
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
scene the suspect raised a weapon and shot the victim in the back of the head Natasha was an ace duty honor roll student she got money every week for her allowance so she did not have to steal orange juice
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Whatever happened to...
while strictly limiting pollution. Many critics called these allowances licenses to pollute, or said the government was selling clean air. But since the cap was set to lower five years into the program,
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David Attenborough On...
to creating a powerful bond animals also deserve a space on this planet we are late comers and the animals were there before us and maybe we should be taking care of them making allowance for them
Video examples
Cameron Herold: Let's...
I remember that lesson to this day. Allowances teach kids the wrong habits. Allowances, by nature, are teaching kids to think about a job. An entrepreneur doesn't expect a regular paycheck. Allowance is breeding kids at a young age to expect a regular paycheck. That's wrong, for me, if you want to raise entrepreneurs.
Video examples
Agile programming -- for...
more control over their lives the point is we have to let our children succeed on their own terms and yes on occasion fail on their own terms I was talking to Warren Buffett's banker and he was chiding me for a lot letting my children make mistakes with their allowance and I said but what if they
Video examples
Let's raise kids to be...
remember that lesson to this day allowances teach kids the wrong habits allowances by nature teaching kids to think about a job an entrepreneur doesn't expect a regular paycheck allowance is breeding kids at a young age to expect a regular paycheck that's wrong for me if you want to raise
Video examples
Jackie Tabick: The...
And, of course, in the modern world, with the environmental movement, we're becoming even more aware of the connectivity of things, that something I do here actually does matter in Africa, that if I use too much of my carbon allowance, it seems to be that we are causing
Video examples
Tristram Stuart: The...
is the likely level of consumption with an allowance for certain levels of inevitable waste. There will always be waste. I'm not that unrealistic that I think we can live in a waste-free world. But that black line shows what a food supply should be
Video examples
Let’s put compassion...
a teenager and think that I might need to undergo some psychiatric testing let me remind you that I can't raise their allowance or extend their curfew and thankfully I don't have to get them out of bed in the morning but I do get to
Video examples
Ludwick Marishane: A...
with an allowance of 50 rand a week, I came up with a way for the world not to bathe. What's stopping you? I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet. And another key thing that I learned a lot throughout this whole process,
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
scene the suspect raised a weapon and shot the victim in the back of the head Natasha was an ace duty honor roll student she got money every week for her allowance so she did not have to steal orange juice
Video examples
Whatever happened to...
while strictly limiting pollution. Many critics called these allowances licenses to pollute, or said the government was selling clean air. But since the cap was set to lower five years into the program,
Video examples
David Attenborough On...
to creating a powerful bond animals also deserve a space on this planet we are late comers and the animals were there before us and maybe we should be taking care of them making allowance for them
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Quote examples
Bill Rancic
American Businessman
Young children need to develop good habits that will be useful to them the rest of their lives. It is important to keep the lessons age-appropriate. For example, when your children start earning allowances, that would be a good time to teach them how to put some money in the bank instead of spending it all.
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Zal Batmanglij
American Director
I wanted to be a filmmaker, so my parents helped me by encouraging me to save my allowance. So I bought my first video camera, and I would make movies, but I never made a movie that I finished until I was in college. There was no expectation, but I would make movies every day.
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Barbara Coloroso
American Author
What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
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Dave Ramsey
American Speaker
My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid.
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Ann Landers
American Journalist
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
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William Osler
Canadian Scientist
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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Stafford Cripps
British Politician
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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Venus Williams
American Tennis Player
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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David Storey
British Novelist
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
Quote examples
Bill Rancic
American Businessman
Young children need to develop good habits that will be useful to them the rest of their lives. It is important to keep the lessons age-appropriate. For example, when your children start earning allowances, that would be a good time to teach them how to put some money in the bank instead of spending it all.
Quote examples
Zal Batmanglij
American Director
I wanted to be a filmmaker, so my parents helped me by encouraging me to save my allowance. So I bought my first video camera, and I would make movies, but I never made a movie that I finished until I was in college. There was no expectation, but I would make movies every day.
Quote examples
Barbara Coloroso
American Author
What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
Quote examples
Dave Ramsey
American Speaker
My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid.
Quote examples
Ann Landers
American Journalist
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Quote examples
William Osler
Canadian Scientist
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Quote examples
Stafford Cripps
British Politician
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
Quote examples
Henry David Thoreau
American Author
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Quote examples
Venus Williams
American Tennis Player
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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David Storey
British Novelist
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
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