Allowance is an English word with synonyms like share or variance. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Allowance meaning
- Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
- Acknowledgment.
- An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
Synonyms of Allowance
Using Allowance
- The main meaning on this page is: Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting. | Acknowledgment. | An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
- Useful related words include: share, variance, divergence, disagreement.
- In the example corpus, allowance often appears in combinations such as: attendance allowance, allowance for, the allowance.
Context around Allowance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 15 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Allowance
- In this selection, "allowance" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, support, lifetime, attendance, income, esa and jsa stand out and add context to how "allowance" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 000 hazard allowance they claimed and an attendance allowance was introduced. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "allowance" sits close to words such as analyzed, clare and composite, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with allowance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Like the lifetime allowance, the annual allowance only applies to private pensions. (12 words)
Others are Attendance Allowance, Carer’s Allowance, Employment Support Allowance, Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Maternity Allowance. (18 words)
Continuing, he said: “Our hazard allowance even as at May is still reflecting the N5,000 hazard allowance they claimed they have reviewed. (23 words)
Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam stated that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz also stopped the personal allowance offered to his relatives stating that he could only give them an allowance if he gave an allowance to everyone else in the empire. (43 words)
Mr Akpabio's statement was greeted with public criticisms among Nigerians though some of the senators later admitted that each of them received N2 million as allowance for seven weeks' holiday allowance, which will end on 26 September. (38 words)
The must also live in England or Wales and get one of: Pension Credit,Universal Credit, income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Income Support, Child Tax Credit, or Working Tax Credit. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Others are Attendance Allowance, Carer’s Allowance, Employment Support Allowance, Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Maternity Allowance.
Pension lifetime allowance -The pension lifetime allowance will be scrapped from April 6. The lifetime allowance is the total amount you can build up in your pensions savings account without incurring an extra tax charge.
An Attendance Allowance was introduced for those needing care at home, together with Invalidity Benefit for the long-term sick, while a higher Child Allowance was made available where invalidity allowance was paid.
Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam stated that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz also stopped the personal allowance offered to his relatives stating that he could only give them an allowance if he gave an allowance to everyone else in the empire.
Coal India said that a 19% minimum guaranteed benefit on emoluments including basic salary, variable dearness allowance, special duty allowance and attendance bonus, and a 25% increase in allowances have been agreed upon.
Like the lifetime allowance, the annual allowance only applies to private pensions.
Mr Akpabio's statement was greeted with public criticisms among Nigerians though some of the senators later admitted that each of them received N2 million as allowance for seven weeks' holiday allowance, which will end on 26 September.
Carer’s Allowance Supplement is also available as an extra payment for people in Scotland who get Carer Support Payment or Carer's Allowance on a particular date each year.
In the first circular, the CBN stopped banks from paying Personal Allowance (PTA) and Business Travel Allowance (BTA) to their customers in cash—a practice that has been in place for decades.
Legacy benefits – such as Tax Credits, Housing Benefit, Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income-Related Employment and Support Allowance – are being phased out to bring government financial support into one place.
Other rules in the amended IRR cover time allowance for study, teaching, and mentoring, immediate release of PDLs under preventive imprisonment, and special time allowance for loyalty, among other provisions.
The Government has announced an increase in the weekly earnings allowance, allowing a carer to earn over £10,000 while still receiving the allowance.
The must also live in England or Wales and get one of: Pension Credit,Universal Credit, income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Income Support, Child Tax Credit, or Working Tax Credit.
These are Universal Credit, Income-based Jobseekers Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Pension Credit.
Where a motor vehicle is purchased below the standard value, a motor vehicle allowance shall be reduced to that allowance equivalent to the vehicle purchased by the office bearer.
You will be eligible for this support if you get Council Tax Reduction, Housing Benefit, (UC), Income Support/Income based Job Seekers Allowance (JSA)/Income related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Pension Credit.
Continuing, he said: “Our hazard allowance even as at May is still reflecting the N5,000 hazard allowance they claimed they have reviewed.
Mr Morrison said people who qualified for the coronavirus supplement through the jobseeker allowance would also gain access to “normal” benefit payments including rental assistance, family tax benefits and the pharmaceutical allowance.
It also includes other monetary improvements such as enhancements to vacation increments, uniform allowance for nutritional workers and an increase in boot allowance for maintenance workers.
The Uttar Pradesh government Tuesday doubled the house rent allowance (HRA) and city compensatory allowance (CCA) from July 1. The hike, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, is expected to benefit 15 lakh employees.
Common combinations with allowance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- attendance allowance 15×
- allowance for 15×
- the allowance 15×
- allowance is 12×
- lifetime allowance 11×
- allowance of 11×
- allowance to 10×
- support allowance 9×
- allowance and 9×
- an allowance 8×