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IELTS BNC: 2481 COCA: 7677

allowance

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Related topics: Tax
al·low·ance /əˈlaʊəns/ ●●○ noun
1  PET[countableC usually singular] an amount of money that you are given regularly or for a special purpose 〔定期或出於特殊原因而給予的〕一筆錢；津貼，補助
a monthly/annual etc allowance
His father gives him a monthly allowance of £200.
他父親每月給他200英鎊的生活費。
allowance for
Do you get an allowance for clothes?
你有服裝補貼嗎？
Sales staff get a generous mileage allowance or a company car.
銷售人員有優厚的裏程補貼或者公司提供的專用汽車。
If you are entitled to sickness allowance, you must claim it from your employer.
你如果有資格領取疾病津貼，必須向僱主申請索要。
2  AMOUNT[countableC usually singular] an amount of something that is acceptable or safe 允許量，限額
the recommended daily allowance of Vitamin C
維生素C的每日建議攝入量
Passengers’ baggage allowance is 75 pounds per person.
乘客行李限重是每人75磅。
3  [countableC] British EnglishBrE an amount of money that you can earn without paying tax on it 〔收入的〕免稅額
a new tax allowance
新的免稅額度
4. [countableC usually singular] especially American EnglishAmE a small amount of money that a parent regularly gives to a child 〔父母給小孩的〕零用錢，零花錢 SYN British English pocket money
5  [countableC, uncountableU] something that you consider when deciding what is likely to happen, what you should expect etc 考慮到的事情
allowance for
There is always an allowance in insurance premiums for whether someone smokes or not.
保費總是要考慮到被保險人是否吸煙。
make (an) allowance/make allowances (for something)
The budget makes allowances for extra staff when needed.
預算考慮到必要時增聘員工的開支。
6  make allowance/allowances (for somebody) LET/ALLOWto let someone behave in a way you do not normally approve of, because you know there are special reasons for their behaviour 體諒（某人）
Dad’s under pressure – you have to make allowances.
爸爸壓力大——你得體諒。
Examples from the Corpus
make allowance/allowances (for somebody)• Remember my age and make allowance for it.• Of course he made allowances for error.• Those who claimed a break-even or loss situation did not make allowance for home produced food.• Gender-free testing may mean not making allowances for women.• Where it is necessary for any goods to be sent by post please make allowance for this in your remittance.• Despite all his efficient calculations Donald never seemed to make allowances for this.• The Crosby used to make allowances for time-wasting yahoos.• Once we make allowances for this formal difference, we can see that both accounts are making the same point.
Examples from the Corpus
allowance• Some students have an allowance from their parents.• The baggage allowance is 75 pounds per person.• Does your mom give you a clothing allowance?• A glass of orange juice provides the recommended daily allowance of Vitamin C.• The young Moynihan urged enactment of a scheme called child or family allowances.• They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money.• These are child benefits, industrial injuries and death benefits, certain invalidity benefits, and attendance and mobility allowances.• In exchange for looking after the children, Annie has all her meals paid for and receives a small monthly allowance.• A large boost to their independent solvency has been the Friday night allowance.• While imports required a royal allowance to buy and support, this car has always been priced at more affordable levels.• Mom gave us kids a weekly allowance if we kept our rooms clean.• I think my yearly allowance is about three hundred, you know, so I'm rapidly running out.
get an allowance• Susan got an allowance from her father.
daily allowance• Few men could fail to shed weight at a satisfactory rate on a daily allowance of 1,500 calories.• Know your average daily allowance for meat.• Many companies institutionalize dishonesty and exploitation of expenses by paying daily allowances.• The current recommended daily allowance for vitamin E is 30 milligrams a day.• Nutritional deficiency must be avoided by providing the recommended daily allowance of protein in the evening meal and later in the day.• The recommended daily allowance of B12 is three milligrams daily.• This time she asked Congress to approve a 100 percent increase in soldiers' daily allowance.• In Long Kesh Prison, fellow prisoners used to save for him part of their daily allowance of milk.
tax allowance• It offered married men a tax allowance of some one-and-a-half times the single person's allowance to which working wives were entitled.• These include a capital gains tax cut, a 15% investment tax allowance and across-the-board tax rate cuts.• Governments could have offset declining profitability by cutting taxes on profits or by increasing the generosity of tax allowances given for investment.• Now, though, a wife has her own tax allowances and can make refund claims in her own name.• And freezing personal tax allowances means more people will have to pay tax.• This could, of course, be extended to the whole range of non-personal tax allowances.• Personal tax allowances are expected to be frozen and taxes on petrol, drink and tobacco raised.• The cardinal rule is: only register if your taxable income is less than your tax allowances.
From Longman Business Dictionary
allowanceal·low·ance /əˈlaʊəns/ noun
1[countableC] an amount of money that someone is given regularly or for a special reason
She earns a package worth $1 million, including a $15,000 clothing allowance.
→ cost of living allowance → entertainment allowance → family allowance → job-seeker's allowance → subsistence allowance
2[countableC]ACCOUNTING an amount that a company thinks it may lose in the future, and includes in its accounts as a PROVISION
allowance for
The company has made an increase in its allowance for bad debt.
→ loan-loss allowance
3[countableC]TAX an amount of money that a person can earn without paying tax on it
→ income tax allowance → personal allowance
4[countableC]TAX a maximum amount of goods that you can buy without paying tax on them when taking them into another country
They may introduce higher sales taxes on purchases above the duty-free allowance.
5[countableC]TAX an amount that can be taken off a business’s profit figure when calculating tax. Allowances are often used to encourage particular business decisions, such as spending on new machinery
→ auto-expense allowance → capital allowance → depreciation allowance → writing-down allowance
6[countableC]MARKETING a reduction in price given to retailers by manufacturers or WHOLESALERs
The company had to give retailers special allowances so they could lower the price.
→ see also oversubscription allowance
al·low·ance noun
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IELTS BNC: 2481 COCA: 7677
allowance

noun¹

 1amount of sth that you are allowed允給量ADJECTIVE | VERB + ALLOWANCE | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤baggage行李重量限額➤tax免稅額▸➤holiday (BrE) 規定的休假天數VERB + ALLOWANCE➤be entitled to, get, have有權享受定量；得到定量的配額；有定量的配額◇You're entitled to a baggage allowance of 28 kilos.你可以免費攜帶 28 公斤的行李。◇I get four weeks' holiday allowance a year.我 1 年有 4 週的假期。PHRASES➤recommended daily allowance每日的建議攝取量◇The recommended daily allowance of vitamin C is 60-90 milligrams.維生素 C 的每日建議攝取量是 60 － 90 毫克。
allowance

noun²

 2amount of money sb receives regularly定期獲得的錢ADJECTIVE | VERB + ALLOWANCE | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVE➤generous, large豐厚的補貼；大筆的津貼▸➤meagre/meager, small微薄的津貼；少量的補貼▸➤annual, daily, monthly, weekly每年的／每天的／每月的／每週的補貼▸➤attendance, child, disability, family (especially BrE) （國家支付的）護理津貼；子女津貼；傷殘津貼；家庭補貼▸➤clothing, housing, travel服裝／住房／差旅補貼VERB + ALLOWANCE➤be entitled to有權享受補貼◇You may be entitled to a clothing allowance if your job requires it.如果工作對服裝有要求，你也許可以享受服裝補貼。➤get, receive獲得／得到補貼➤claim索要津貼▸➤give sb, grant給某人補貼；給予津貼◇The company gives me a travel allowance.公司給我一筆出差補助。➤spend花費津貼◇She spends her allowance on clothes.她用津貼來買衣服。PREPOSITION➤allowance of⋯的津貼◇an allowance of $25一筆 25 美元的補貼➤allowance for給⋯的補貼◇The weekly allowance for each child is £15.每個孩子 1 週的補貼是 15 英鎊。
IELTS BNC: 2481 COCA: 7677
allowance noun
⇨ share
IELTS BNC: 2481 COCA: 7677
allowance
Grants and allowances: allowance, annuity, award...
General words for numbers, amounts and quantities: accumulation, allocation, allowance...
Relating to tax and taxation: 1099, after tax, allowance...

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