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allowanced

allowanced is the simple past and past participle of allowance.

Meaning of allowance

Verb

allowance (third-person singular simple present allowances, present participle allowancing, simple past and past participle allowanced)

  1. (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
    • The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
  2. (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
    • Our provisions were allowanced.

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Questions about allowanced

What is allowanced the simple past and past participle of?
Allowanced is the simple past and past participle of allowance.

Words near allowanced in the dictionary

  1. allowable
  2. allowableness
  3. allowables
  4. allowably
  5. allowance
  6. allowanced
  7. allowances
  8. allowancing
  9. allowaunce
  10. allowaunces
  11. Alloway

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Adapted from Wiktionary: allowanced (page history and authors); allowance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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