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Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.

Acknowledgment.

An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.

(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.

(horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.

A child's allowance; pocket money.

(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.

(obsolete) Approval; approbation.

(obsolete) License; indulgence.

(engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.

To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).

To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.