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Alimony :: Alimony (n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same..

Tret :: Tret (n.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted..

Disallowance :: Disallowance (n.) The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

Breakage :: Breakage (n.) An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) Approval; approbation.

Rate :: Rate (n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.

Genteel :: Genteel (a.) Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance..

Batta :: Batta (n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.

Leave :: Leave (n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

Solatium :: Solatium (n.) Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings..

Scant :: Scant (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment..

Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

Quarterage :: Quarterage (n.) A quarterly allowance.

Allotment :: Allotment (n.) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.

Mileage :: Mileage (n.) An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..

Tommy :: Tommy (n.) Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance..

Leakage :: Leakage (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking..

Sufferance :: Sufferance (n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.

Equate :: Equate (v. t.) To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances..

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