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

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

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

Admittance :: Admittance (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument..

Settle :: Settle (n.) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance..

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

Ration :: Ration (n.) Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment..

Commutation :: Commutation (n.) A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations..

Percentage :: Percentage (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred..

Factorage :: Factorage (n.) The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission..

Pittance :: Pittance (n.) A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation..

Allocatur :: Allocatur (n.) Allowed. The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer..

Size :: Size (n.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford..

Pittance :: Pittance (n.) An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole..

Portionist :: Portionist (n.) A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster..

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

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

Appointment :: Appointment (n.) An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural..

Sheaf :: Sheaf (n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four..

Livery :: Livery (n.) An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc..

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