ALLOWANCE

[noun] [C]You'll have to pay a surcharge if you exceed your baggage/luggage allowance (= the weight of luggage that a passenger is permitted to take on a flight).When I go abroad, I hardly ever use all my duty-free allowance (= the amount of goods that can be bought without paying tax).The married couple's tax allowance (= the amount of income that you can earn before you have to pay tax) will rise in line with inflation.The perks of the job include a company pension scheme and a generous travel allowance (= money that an employee can spend while travelling on company business).An allowance is (esp. US) for pocket money.See at pocket (BAG).An allowance is also money which parents give regularly to older children who are still at school or college to pay for some of their living expenses such as clothes and entertainment.While he was at college, his parents gave him such a small allowance that he had to earn extra money working in a bar.