allows

Verb

allow (third-person singular simple present allows, present participle allowing, simple past and past participle allowed)

1. (ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.
   • to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest

   Synonyms:

   grant, admit, afford, yield, give, permit, allot, bestow, concede

2. (intransitive) To present something as possible or reasonable.
   • The event allows of only one interpretation.
3. (catenative, transitive) To permit, to give permission to.
   • I will allow my son to be absent.

   Synonyms:

   permit, let, grant licence to, consent, grant

4. To not bar or obstruct.
   • Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.

   Synonyms:

   tolerate, suffer, permit, admit, concede

5. (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion; to say something one agrees on in the context of a larger disagreement or reluctance.
   • to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow an appeal

   Synonyms:

   concede, accede, acquiesce

6. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
   • to allow a sum for leakage

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