allow🔊

To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. +

To enable; to permit; to grant license to; to consent to. +

To not bar or obstruct. +

To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.

To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

To take into account by making an allowance.

To render physically possible.

(obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

(obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.

(obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

(law) To decide (a request) in favor of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).

(MTE, MLE) To forgo bothering with, to let slide.