Allowance may refer to:
- Allowance (money)
- Allowances in accounting, see Accounts receivable
- Personal allowance in the United Kingdom's taxing system
- Jobseeker's Allowance, a term for unemployment benefit in the United Kingdom
- EU Allowances
- Allowance (engineering)
- In grocery retail, “allowances” refers to discounts given to retailers in exchange for either favorable placement of a product in their stores, or sometimes even the initial or continued stocking of a product.
- Tradable allowance
- Baggage allowance on airlines
- Decorative Allowance in real estate
- Seam allowance in stitching
Famous quotes containing the word allowance:
“Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
“Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)