OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8654

allowance

/əˈlaʊəns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
anuencia • permisión
Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
[Mr. Michie] Q[uestion]. Didn't Dr. Carter, Director of the OHTA [Office of Health Technology Assessment], and Martin Erlichman, OHTA scientific analyst assigned to this assessment…
you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance
paga
Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
After making the largest allowance for fraud.
to make allowance for his naivety