allowment

allowment noun: an amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.

Noun

allowment (countable and uncountable, plural allowments)

An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
- On this point Dr. Woodward says: “For the lower grades a daily allowment of one hour for drawing, modelling, cutting, pasting, gluing, and sewing would be enough for positive manual training."1887, The Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association (U.S.)
- The law concerning the control of the Capitol buildings, the allowment of the rooms for various purposes, and the like, is not clear.1902, State of West Virginia, Public Documents - Volume 1
The act of allowing.
- And therefore they obteined the allowment of God and their own conscience , and the commendation of all godly insnne, and of the whole church.1570, A Postil, Or Orderly Disposing of Certeine Epistles, page 334
- I have known a patent to be taken from a man after it was allowed, – between the allowment and the issue.1885, Boston (Mass.). City Council, Documents of the City of Boston - Volume 3
A mapping of a hypothesis to the set of arguments that support or reject that hypothesis weighted by the probability of the hypothesis given each argument.
- Its algebraic part is discussed as a body of arguments which contains an allocation of support and an allowment of possibility for each hypothesis.1995, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Ronald R. Yager, Advances in Intelligent Computing - IPMU '94

While being in the advance program, the cadets receive an allowment from the government which amounts up to approximately sixty dollars a quarter.1954, The Iowa Engineer - Volume 55, page 27:
Our recommendations to the Claims Committee have varied from recommending full allowment of the claim, partial allowment of the claim to no reimbursement for the claim.1975, Annual Report to the Citizens' Advisory Board on Corrections, page 101:
These conditions have prevented that careful preparation of soil so essential to the allowment of good stands and easy after cultivation.1892, Louisiana. State. Commissioner of Agriculture, Biennial Report, page 128:

plural	allowments

From allow + -ment.

What does allowment mean?: Allowment means an amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
How do you use allowment in a sentence?: While being in the advance program, the cadets receive an allowment from the government which amounts up to approximately sixty dollars a quarter.
What part of speech is allowment?: Allowment is a noun.
What is the plural of allowment?: The plural of allowment is allowments.

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