Allowance

1. n. A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
2. n. Approval; approbation.
3. n. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
4. n. Acknowledgment.
5. n. License; indulgence.
6. n. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
7. n. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.