Synonyms of the word

allowance

• n. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting.
• n. Acknowledgment.
• n. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty,…
• n. a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
• n. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
• n. (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries.
• n. A child's allowance; pocket money.
• n. (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing…
• n. (obsolete) approval; approbation.
• n. (obsolete) license; indulgence.
• v. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

adjustment

• n. The action of adjusting something.
• n. The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration.
• n. The settling or balancing of a financial account.
• n. The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
• n. The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim.

allow

• v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
• v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
• v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
• v. To not bar or obstruct.
• v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
• v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
• v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
• v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

disagreement

• n. An argument or debate.
• n. A condition of not agreeing or concurring.

discrepancy

• n. An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
• n. The state or quality of being discrepant.

divergence

• n. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
• n. (obsolete) disagreement; difference.
• n. The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

grant

• v. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer…
• v. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
• v. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
• v. To assent; to consent.
• n. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
• n. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
• n. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
• n. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the…
• n. the deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
• n. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

leeway

• n. The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
• n. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom.
• n. (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.

license

• n. A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
• n. The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
• n. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or…
• n. Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
• v. The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.
• v. Authorize officially.

margin

• n. (typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.
• n. The edge or border of any flat surface.
• n. (figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.
• n. A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
• n. A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
• n. (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
• n. (finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into…
• v. To add a margin to.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

percentage

• n. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
• n. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
• n. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

permission

• n. authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority).
• n. The act of permitting.
• n. (computing) flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.

permit

• v. (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
• v. (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
• v. (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.
• v. (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible.
• v. (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of).
• v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
• v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for…
• n. (obsolete) Formal permission.
• n. An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
• n. A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.

portion

• n. An allocated amount.
• n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• n. One's fate; lot.
• n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

recompense

• n. An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
• n. That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
• v. To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
• v. To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
• v. (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.

reimbursement

• n. (business, management, accounting) The act of compensating someone for an expense.

share

• n. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
• n. (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit…
• n. (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
• n. (Internet) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
• n. The sharebone or pubis.
• v. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
• v. To have or use in common.
• v. To divide and distribute.
• v. To tell to another.
• v. (obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
• n. (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

tolerance

• n. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
• n. (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions…
• n. (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with…
• n. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in…
• n. (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

variance

• n. The act of varying or the state of being variable.
• n. A difference between what is expected and what happens.
• n. The state of differing or being in conflict.
• n. A discrepancy, especially between two legal documents.
• n. (statistics) The second central moment in probability.
• n. (computing, programming) covariance and contravariance generally.