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 you have a large amount in savings, or if you fail to use the tax-free Isa allowance, then you will pay more tax from April.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Samantha Richards, who works full-time and relies on Universal Credit and her son's disability allowance to cover the bills, said the call to prepare reminded her of the "survival of the fittest".

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

She was considering moving into an apartment for her sophomore year, and I had to work through complications about leases, providing an allowance and related expenses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

"The way things are going, I'm going to have to find a job just to feed her," he said ruefully, handing Mary Lou the last of his allowance.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

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

Lecornu has said the draft law could allow compensation payments to be recovered from family allowances and housing benefits while ensuring a minimum income.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The pay packages also typically include car allowances and bonus opportunities, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 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

Further, I was told that tea, coffee, and sugar are roughly allowanced to each family.

From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

But the timber will be allowanced, and the land parcelled out, to each household according to its needs, as soon as either becomes scarce, as is already the case in Russia.

From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

The poor dog, thus allowanced, must have been sorry that he ever joined us.

From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore

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

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

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