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make allowance (s) for1Take into consideration when planning something: the council has made no allowances for inflation...- All home-care workers should be paid petrol costs and travel time between clients' homes, not just those workers lucky enough to work for providers who make allowance for that.
- According to a report presented to the City council by Baskin, this figure includes shack settlements and makes allowance for 4,000 households to be relocated within the framework of the backyard shacks upgrading programme.
- He did not always make appropriate deductions from anticipated profits to make allowance for these factors.
Synonyms take into consideration, take into account, bear in mind, keep in mind, not lose sight of, have regard to, provide for, plan for, make plans for, foresee, anticipate, get ready for, cater for, allow for, make provision for, make preparations for, prepare for, accommodate, make concessions for; bargain for, reckon with, remember 2Treat leniently on account of mitigating circumstances: she liked them and made allowances for their faults...- So too the common law makes allowance for the difficulties in the circumstances in which professional judgments have to be made and acted upon.
- You might say that it's a true history of the subject, making allowance for its brevity and its focus on Lincoln's contemporary rather than on Lincoln himself.
- They now trade at the equivalent of roughly 14 times their 100p flotation price in July 1997, after making allowance for new share issues.
Synonyms excuse, make excuses for, forgive, pardon, overlook, pass over, treat leniently, condone rare remit See parent entry: allowance |