allowance
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Workers ages 60 to 63 have a supplemental catch-up allowance of $11,750.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Instead, they would receive an allowance on the same basic rate as universal credit.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
He and Puyi spoke of studying at Oxford, an idea that the emperor raised in the summer of 1922 with the Imperial Household Department, the residual Qing bureaucracy that controlled Puyi’s allowance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
I spent a lot of birthday money and allowance buying small chess sets, Spaulding balls and malteds at these establishments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Aru didn’t have any experience with dads, but she was pretty sure giving your kid a glowing Ping-Pong ball to fight demons was like getting pocket fuzz and spare change instead of an allowance.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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It also recommended an equivalent increase in the allowances available to employers for accommodation and meals provided to employees earning the main minimum wage rate, which Millar said she accepted.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Lower prices or more generous usage allowances need to translate into durable business.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Lecornu has said the draft law, first presented before the protests, would allow these sums to be "taken from family allowances and housing benefits, while ensuring a minimum income is preserved".
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Among Russell 3000 companies, the number of businesses reporting the same security allowances similarly rose, in this case from 7% in 2025 to 11%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“We’ve been saving our allowances for months,” Rita said.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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The first album I ever bought with my own money, allowanced saved up for weeks, was “Long Hard Climb.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
The poor dog, thus allowanced, must have been sorry that he ever joined us.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore
Accordingly I allowanced my men two pounds of beads monthly, and they went to distant villages and purchased their own provisions independently of me.
From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Sir Samuel White Baker
Then don’t you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.”
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
On the other hand, they will not stand being allowanced for tea, sugar, butter, or anything of the kind, and as a rule they fare in exactly the same style as their masters.
From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny
And when the larger wood begins to grow scarce, what course does the peasant adopt?—The allowancing of individuals.
From The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris by Henry Glasse
The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
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Christopher Columbus' Diary: The First Voyage
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