Allowance

Noun

 * 1) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
 * 2) Acknowledgment.
 * 3) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
 * 4) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
 * 5)  A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
 * 6) A child's allowance; pocket money.

Adjectives for Allowance
liberal; generous;  handsome;  munificent; reasonable; meager; due; tolerable; lavish; modest; regular; intermittent;  niggardly; kingly; stated.

Verbs for Allowance
admit; allot; apportion; award; concede; continue; deduct from; draw from; exhaust; husband;  laud; limit;  oppose;  pledge;  restrict; sanction; spurn; tolerate; astounds; shrinks; staggers.

Thesaurus
C ration; K ration; OK; abatement; acceptance; account; acknowledgment; adjustment; admission; agio; aid; alimony; allocation; allotment; allowing; annuity; apportionment; appreciation; appropriation; approximation; assessment; assignment; assistance; authorization; avowal; bank discount; big end; bigger half; bill; bit; bite; blackmail; blood money; board; bounty; breakage; budget; bulge; cash discount; cession; chain discount; charge-off; charter; chunk; circumscription; color; commission; commons; concession; confession; consent; consideration; contingent; countenance; credit; cut; deadwood; deal; declaration; decontamination; deduction; depletion allowance; depreciation; destiny; deviation; discount; dispensation; dividend; dole; drawback; edge; emergency rations; emolument; end; equal share; exception; excuses; exemption; extenuating circumstances; extenuation; extenuative; fate; favor; fee; fellowship; field rations; financial assistance; footing; gilding; gloss; grain of salt; grant; grant-in-aid; guaranteed annual income; half; halver; handicap; head start; hedge; hedging; help; helping; hush money; imprecision; inaccuracy; inaccurateness; incorrectness; indulgence; inexactitude; inexactness; initiation fee; interest; kickback; laxity; leave; liberty; license; limitation; looseness; lot; meals; measure; meed; mental reservation; mess; mileage; mitigation; modicum; modification; moiety; negligence; odds; okay; old-age insurance; overhand; palliation; palliative; part; patent; payment; pecuniary aid; penalty; penalty clause; pension; percentage; permission; permission to enter; permit; permitting; piece; pin money; pocket money; portion; predictable error; premium; price reduction; price support; price-cut; probable error; profession; proportion; public assistance; public welfare; qualification; quantum; quota; rake-off; ration; rations; rebate; rebatement; reckoning; recognition; recompense; reduction; refund; reimbursement; release; relief; remittance; remuneration; reservation; restriction; retainer; retaining fee; retirement benefits; rollback; salvage; salvo; sanction; sanctioning; scholarship; scot; segment; setoff; share; short commons; slice; small share; softening; special case; special permission; special treatment; specialness; specification; stake; standard deviation; start; stipend; stock; subsidization; subsidy; subvention; sufferance; suffering; support; tare; tax benefit; ticket; ticket of admission; time discount; tolerance; tolerating; toleration; trade discount; tret; tribute; tucker; uncorrectness; underselling; unfactualness; unpreciseness; unrigorousness; vantage; varnish; vouchsafement; waiver; welfare; welfare aid; welfare payments; whitewash; whitewashing; write-off

Etymology
alouance: (Modern French allouance:, see also the verb allouer:).