to allot an allowance
1allowance — 1 *ration, dole, pittance Analogous words: allotment, apportionment, assignment (see corresponding verbs at ALLOT): share (see corresponding verb SHARE): grant, *appropriation, subsidy 2 Allowance, concession both signify a change made by way of… …
2allot — allot, assign, apportion, allocate mean to give as one’s share, portion, role, or place. Allot implies more or less arbitrary or haphazard selection and in itself conveys no suggestion of a fair or equal distribution {allotted himself an hour a… …
3allot — [ə lät′] vt. allotted, allotting [OFr aloter < a , to + loter < lot, lot, of Gmc orig.: see LOT] 1. to distribute by lot or in arbitrary shares; apportion 2. to give or assign as one s share [each speaker is allotted five minutes] SYN.… …
4allot — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. appoint, assign; distribute, parcel out. See apportionment. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. apportion, allocate, assign, mete out, distribute, dispense, parcel out, divide up, share, allow, bestow, grant,… …
5allowance — n 1. amount, share, allotment, portion; given quantity, quota, ration, rate, stint. 2. grant, fellowship, scholarship, assistantship, stipend. 3. salary, pay, wages, hire, commission, sum, pittance, pin or pocket money; percentage, quarterage,… …
6fate — Synonyms and related words: Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Heaven, Paradise, Z, a better place, accidentality, act of God, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, afterlife, afterworld, allocate, allot, allotment, allowance, apodosis, appoint,… …
7measure — Synonyms and related words: A, Alexandrine, Spenserian stanza, Stabreim, a, accent, accent mark, accentuation, accommodate, accommodation, accomplished fact, accomplishment, accord, achievement, acreage, act, acta, action, ad hoc measure, adapt,… …
8portion — Synonyms and related words: Friday, Friday the thirteenth, adjunct, administer, allocate, allocation, allot, allotment, allowance, amount, antepast, appanage, appointed lot, apportion, apportionment, assign, assignment, astral influences,… …
9present — Synonyms and related words: Christmas present, accessible, accommodate, accord, acquaint, actual, adduce, adjacent, administer, advance, affect, afford, affront, aid, aim, aim at, allege, allot, allow, allowance, alms, announce, aorist, array,… …
10ration — Synonyms and related words: administer, allocate, allot, allotment, allowance, amount, apportion, apportionment, assign, assignment, batch, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, budget, bunch, chunk, clutch, comestibles, commission, commons,… …
