All allowance synonyms

noun allowance

• salary — a fixed compensation periodically paid to a person for regular work or services.
• wage — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
• fee — a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
• gift — gamete intrafallopian transfer: a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.
• grant — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
• ration — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
• quota — the share or proportional part of a total that is required from, or is due or belongs to, a particular district, state, person, group, etc.
• stipend — a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
• subsidy — a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like.
• allotment — In Britain, an allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.
• allocation — An allocation is an amount of something, especially money, that is given to a particular person or used for a particular purpose.
• pension — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
• alimony — Alimony is money that a court of law orders someone to pay regularly to their former wife or husband after they have got divorced. Compare palimony.
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• contribution — If you make a contribution to something, you do something to help make it successful or to produce it.
• scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
• annuity — An annuity is an investment or insurance policy that pays someone a fixed sum of money each year.
• deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• adjustment — An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
• accommodation — Accommodation is used to refer to buildings or rooms where people live or stay.
• rebate — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
• taste — to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
• share — a plowshare.
• legacy — legacy system
• measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• stint — to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
• slice — a thin, flat piece cut from something: a slice of bread.
• apportionment — the act of apportioning
• inheritance — something that is or may be inherited; property passing at the owner's death to the heir or those entitled to succeed; legacy.
• pay — to coat or cover (seams, a ship's bottom, etc.) with pitch, tar, or the like.
• bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
• honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
• commission — If you commission something or commission someone to do something, you formally arrange for someone to do a piece of work for you.
• lot — lot (def 14).
• bounty — You can refer to something that is provided in large amounts as bounty.
• interest — the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something: She has a great interest in the poetry of Donne.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• fellowship — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
• bequest — A bequest is money or property which you legally leave to someone when you die.
• prize — leverage.
• portion — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
• part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
• recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
• piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
• quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
• remittance — the sending of money, checks, etc., to a recipient at a distance.
• toleration — an act or instance of tolerating, especially of what is not actually approved; forbearance: to show toleration toward the protesters.
• advantage — An advantage is something that puts you in a better position than other people.
• admission — Admission is permission given to a person to enter a place, or permission given to a country to enter an organization. Admission is also the act of entering a place.