allowanceとは

語源

Borrowed from Old French alouance.

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈlaʊəns/

名詞

allowance (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 allowances)

1. permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
   • 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance

2. Acknowledgment.
   • The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --William Shakespeare
3. 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

   her meagre allowance of food or drink

   • I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- William Makepeace Thackeray.
4. a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
5. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances

   to make allowance for his naivety

   • After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
6. (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries

   Tare and tret are examples of allowance.

7. A child's allowance; pocket money.

   She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

8. (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
9. (obsolete) approval; approbation

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10. (obsolete) license; indulgence

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同意語

• (act of allowing): authorization, permission, sanction, tolerance.
• (money): stipend
• (minting): remedy, tolerance

動詞

allowance (三人称単数 現在形 allowances, 現在分詞 allowancing, 過去形および過去分詞形 allowanced)

1. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions かつ drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

   The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.

   Our provisions were allowanced.