(n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
(n.) Acknowledgment.
(n.) License; indulgence.
(n.) 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, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
(n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
(n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
(n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.
Example Sentences:
(1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(4) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(5) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(6) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
(7) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
(8) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.
(9) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(10) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(11) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
(12) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
(13) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(14) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(15) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(16) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(17) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(18) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(19) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(20) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
Pittance
Definition:
(n.) An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.
(n.) A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The massive amount of catalogue being streamed guarantees that they get the massive slice of the pie (that $500 million), and the smaller producers and labels get pittance for their comparatively few streams.
(2) On top of that, given the pittance of offshore projects in the works in the United States, bringing the ships in from abroad can be cost-prohibitive.
(3) And there I was, week after week, paid a pittance to jeer at the Smith regime's imbecilities.
(4) The players' revolt which split tennis asunder, shrivelled 1973's Wimbledon championships to a half-baked botch and kick-started a dramatic overturn in the century-long balance of power between the administrators and administered of any major worldwide sport, was triggered because a temperamental and reasonably good Yugoslavian player, Nikki Pilic, decided to play a well-paid doubles tournament in Montreal instead of (for a pittance) a Davis Cup tie for his country against New Zealand.
(5) The £900,000 that the club paid to the Belgian side Beerschot last year looks a pittance for a defender-cum-midfielder with awesome power and influence.
(6) Instead, they employ landless day labourers for a pittance.
(7) I hope that they will point out to the treasury that for much less than one thousandth part of total government expenditure, they create not just well-being but jobs; that for the pittance saved by cutting a few percentage points from our budget, the damage caused would be disproportionately savage.
(8) As the war began and Nazi racial policies became ever more explicit, more modern and pre-modern works were seized or bought for a pittance from Jewish owners.
(9) How does she survive on a pittance in that pitiless pandemonium?
(10) Art was stolen or bought for a pittance from Jewish collectors who were forced to sell under duress during the Third Reich.
(11) I'm earning a pittance now but we've still got more money each month – for holidays and things.
(12) The money Sir Christopher Kelly wants political parties to get would be a pittance, nationally speaking, and it could save us so much.
(13) They could set up camps outside major cities – preferably to the east of London, where the air is stinkier – but close enough for the workers to commute to and from their jobs, or, if they're indolent scroungers, to today's workhouses AKA supermarkets such as Poundland, where they can work for their pittance.
(14) Relinquishing tax-exempt status would be a pittance for Fifa, which r ecently reported reserves of $1.4bn .
(15) Those with no skills but willing to break their backs underground get a pittance; those who won a lottery of life get paid millions to stay above the ground.
(16) "The usual film model is that the distributor pays the producer a pittance called an advance - and for that takes all rights to the film.
(17) shupiwe An injera worth supporting Little Addis Cafe in the Maboneng Precinct is a delightful little hole-in the-wall, which serves a tasty injera -with-all-the-extras for a pittance.
(18) They often have no changing rooms, no hot water, nowhere to make a cup of tea and they are doing it for a pittance.
(19) the populace of which saw very little benefit of its resources being sold for pittance to us.
(20) Musicians might, for now, challenge the major labels and get a fairer deal than 15% of a pittance, but it seems to me that the whole model is unsustainable as a means of supporting creative work of any kind.