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Allowance

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Allowance may refer to:

  • Allowance (engineering), a planned deviation between two dimensions
  • Allowance (money), an amount of money given at regular intervals for a specific purpose
  • Allowance for bad debts in accounting

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Allowance
  • All pages with titles containing Allowance
  • Welfare, a type of government support to ensure members of a society can meet basic human needs
  • Allowance system, a 19th century system of poor relief in Britain
  • Allowance race, in North American horse racing
  • Baggage allowance, the amount of baggage allowed per passenger
  • EU Allowance in the European Union Emission Trading Scheme
  • Personal allowance in the United Kingdom's taxing system
  • Seam allowance in sewing
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