The illiberality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty.
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Definitions (3) 1. A sum set aside for an occurrence that may or may not come to pass. For example, funds earmarked for expenses associated with potential bad weather. 2. Funds allocated periodically for a stated purpose, such as a per diem. 3. A discount, especially one offered as a result of specific circumstances.
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With respect to the distinct species of the same genus, which on my theory must have spread from one parent-source; if we make the same allowances as before for our ignorance, and remember that some forms of life change most slowly, enormous periods of time being thus granted for their migration, I do not think that the difficulties are insuperable ...
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Or if the manager, in any month, delay for more than a fortnight the payment of the allowance which he shall make to the Opera ghost, an allowance of twenty thousand francs a month, say two hundred and forty thousand francs a year. View in context.
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Allowance (engineering) In engineering and machining, an allowance is a planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension, or between an intermediate-stage dimension and an intended final dimension. The unifying abstract concept is that a certain amount of difference allows for some known factor of compensation or interference.
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Nor will they barely make allowances for the errors which may be chargeable on the fallibility to which the convention, as a body of men, were liable; but will keep in mind, that they themselves also are but men, and ought not to assume an infallibility in rejudging the fallible opinions of others.
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Definitions (3) 1  1. A sum set aside for an occurrence that may or may not come to pass. 2  2. Funds allocated periodically for a stated purpose, such as a per diem. 3  3. A discount, especially one offered as a result of specific circumstances.
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Yes - generally true. You may be authorized a Dislocation Allowance (DLA) when relocating your household due to a PCS. However, DLA is intended to partially reimburse relocation expenses not otherwise reimbursed and probably will not reimburse all of your relocation expenses.
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An accounting term used to describe entries on a profit and loss statement for expenses that might become necessary in the future. Examples include an allowance for bad debt, in which a certain percentage of income is deducted because of the likelihood it will be uncollectible.
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DLA is based on your grade and dependency status on the PCS travel order effective date. To determine the PCS travel order effective date, see JTR, Appendix A1, definition of Effective Date of PCS Order. Current DLA rate information is found at Dislocation Allowance (DLA) and then selecting the applicable rate table.
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what is the allowance on
The allowance on is a planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension, or between an intermediate-stage dimension and an intended final dimension.