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allow
[ uh-lou ]
verb (used with object)
- to give permission to or for; permit:
to allow a student to be absent;
No swimming allowed.
Antonyms: ,
- to let have; give as one's share; grant as one's right:
to allow a person $100 for expenses.
- to permit by neglect, oversight, or the like:
to allow a door to remain open.
- to admit; acknowledge; concede:
to allow a claim.
- to take into consideration, as by adding or subtracting; set apart:
to allow an hour for changing trains.
- Older Use. to say; think.
- Archaic. to approve; sanction.
verb (used without object)
- to permit something to happen or to exist; admit (often followed by of ): a premise that allows of only one conclusion.
to spend more than one's budget allows;
a premise that allows of only one conclusion.
allow
/ əˈ±ô²¹ÊŠ /
verb
- tr to permit (to do something); let
- tr to set aside
five hours were allowed to do the job
- tr to let enter or stay
they don't allow dogs
- tr to acknowledge or concede (a point, claim, etc)
- tr to let have; grant
he was allowed few visitors
- intrfoll byfor to take into account
allow for delays
- introften foll byof to permit; admit
a question that allows of only one reply
- dialect.tr; may take a clause as object to assert; maintain
- archaic.tr to approve; accept
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±è°ù±ða±ô·±ô´Ç·É verb (used with object)
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of allow1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of allow1
Idioms and Phrases
- allow for, to make concession or provision for:
to allow for breakage.
Example Sentences
The then-emerging filmmaker thought to himself: Are you allowed to do that in a movie?
The plan also doesn’t include medication cost in the final pricing and instead allows patients to pick up their medication prescription at the pharmacy or choose home-delivery options.
And would the Kremlin allow itself to be pressured into doing so?
The council previously said Unite was stopping them from operating a contingency service, which would allow them to make one bin collection to every household a week.
His wife Amanda, 36, was found guilty of causing/allowing a child to suffer physical harm and cruelty to a child.
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What are other ways to say allow?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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