allowance

Before the financial crisis the personal allowance was much smaller than today, and it was allowed to grow until the pandemic hit.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

If the personal allowance had risen with inflation over the last five years, you would now be able to take home the first £16,070 of your pay without paying any income tax.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The Guardian says the Budget will see the controversial "cliff-edge" rule abolished, reporting that the chancellor will announce a new digital taper system for the so-called carer's allowance.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Do I need to keep detailed records of every expense, or would the university’s published allowance and proof of rent and utility payments generally be sufficient?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

“I have some money saved,” I tell him, “from allowance and odd jobs and stuff.”

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Read what else is in the Budget - from fuel duty to Isa allowances.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Lower prices or more generous usage allowances need to translate into durable business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Upper secondary teachers in France last year on average earned the equivalent of $69,000 annually, bonuses and allowances included, according to the OECD.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 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

He made allowances for that, and couched his questions cleverly Innocuously.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

Then don't you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.'

From The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Then don’t you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.”

From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

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

"Months and months out of sight of land, and provisions running short, and allowanced as to water, and your mind communing with the mighty ocean, and all that sort of thing?"

From The Wind in the Willows by Paul Bransom

The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.

From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

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