Allowment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Allowment is a noun meaning An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
Meaning
An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
More Meanings
- The act of allowing.
- (mathematics) A mapping of a hypothesis to the set of arguments that support or reject that hypothesis weighted by the probability of the hypothesis given each argument.
Example Sentences
I have known a patent to be taken from a man after it was allowed, – between the allowment and the issue.
The law concerning the control of the Capitol buildings, the allowment of the rooms for various purposes, and the like, is not clear.
These conditions have prevented that careful preparation of soil so essential to the allowment of good stands and easy after cultivation.
And therefore they obteined the allowment of God and their own conscience , and the commendation of all godly insnne, and of the whole church.
Word Forms
- allowments
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include allotment, allocation, assignation, allowance, apportionment, applotment.
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