ALLOWANCES Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

allowances

noun

plural of allowance

as in portions

something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group as the war progressed, each family's allowance of sugar and flour was reduced

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as in permissions

the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something without the official allowance of the school board, no organization can hold its meetings on school property

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Recent Examples of allowances Also, Intel notes that these cards can be set up in arrays of two, four, or eight cards in a workstation or server rack module, to enable multiple AI models queued up in one workstation as needed, or to pool memory allowances for AI models that are too big for one card's memory allocation. —

Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026 The board approved a motion to negotiate a contract with an annual salary of $381,000 with Suddick, with coverage of moving expenses, allowances for annuity and a vehicle and expense accounts. —

Brooklyn Draisey, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 25 Mar. 2026 Trump has criticized those allowances in 14 states and the District of Columbia. —

Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026 In a letter to Newsom and CARB, representatives from 15 green groups say removing 118 million metric tons of carbon allowances amounts to a retreat from earlier indications that the Air Resources Board would eliminate allowances of 265 million metric tons by 2030. —

Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026 Until now, the state’s business community had fundamentally supported the auctioning of emission allowances as a market approach preferable to the direct regulation of emissions, which many environmental groups favored. —

Dan Walters, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026 That does not include travel and expense allowances. —

Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026 The current proposal would remove 118 million emission allowances from the total pool of allowances governed by the state with each allowance equal to a permit to emit one metric ton of greenhouse gases in carbon dioxide equivalent. —

Chaewon Chung march 9, Sacbee.com, 9 Mar. 2026 The detailed report breaks down data and income by whether the respondents work full or part time, or receive parental allowances. —

Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 11 Mar. 2025

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Williams’ letter says the property is located in the North Fork New River Archaeological Zone, which contains portions of a historic camp and a burial ground for the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

— Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Mother Nature may have helped with the trimming by sending a freeze to cause many leaves or portions of leaves to decline.

— Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026