<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of allowing.</li><li>an amount or share allotted or granted.</li><li>Synonyms: allotment.</li><li>a sum of money allotted or granted for a particular purpose, as for expenses: Her allowance for the business trip was $200.</li><li>a sum of money allotted or granted to a person on a regular basis, as for personal or general living expenses: The art student lived on an allowance of $600 a month.</li><li>When I was in first grade, my parents gave me an allowance of seven dollars a week.</li><li>Synonyms: stipend.</li><li>an addition or deduction based on an extenuating or qualifying circumstance: an allowance for profit; an allowance for depreciation.</li><li>acknowledgment; concession: the allowance of a claim.</li><li>passive permission resulting from lack of interference; toleration: the allowance of slavery.</li><li>Synonyms: sufferance, permission, acceptance.</li><li>Antonyms: proscription, prohibition, interdiction.</li><li>Machinery: a prescribed difference in dimensions of two closely fitting mating parts with regard to minimum clearance or maximum interference.</li><li>Coining: tolerance (def 7).</li></ul>