noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tax allowance (= an amount you can earn without paying tax on it )
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Cutting personal tax allowances penalizes the poor.
baggage allowance (= the amount of baggage you are allowed to take on a plane )
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There's a 20 kilo baggage allowance.
Jobseeker's Allowance
mobility allowance British English (= money paid to sick or disabled people to help pay for transport )
personal allowance
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
additional
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Unfortunately this is a commitment which is unlikely to be supported by higher pay or additional allowances .
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Besides this, employees receive an additional taxable transfer allowance of £526 paid in three instalments over 16 months.
annual
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Day to day expenses are covered by her annual allowance of £2.5 million.
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He also gets a $ 4, 800 annual car allowance plus $ 5, 599 a year for other expenses.
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Unlike Tessas, these accounts have instant access and do not count towards your normal £7,000 annual Isa allowance .
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His new salary will be $ 156, 000 plus an $ 8, 340 annual car allowance .
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For non-working spouses, sufficient units can be encashed each tax year to bring total income up to just below the annual allowance .
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Your annual leave allowance will be 22 days with pay.
capital
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The increase in capital allowances is very welcome.
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This is because of the limited partnerships' tax losses while drilling, and the availability of capital allowances .
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This ensures that the sum of capital allowances is equal to the real depreciation incurred.
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Retail developments will not qualify for industrial buildings allowances . Capital allowances on plant and machinery.
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Spending on capital items and allowances for depreciation also affected the cash flow differently last year.
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The lessor receives capital allowances against tax. 2.
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The asset belongs to the lessor, and so capital allowances are not available to the company.
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Timing of tax cash flow. Capital allowances reduce a company's tax liability and thus improve its after-tax cash flow.
compensatory
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When will he announce an enhanced hill livestock compensatory allowance ?
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Thirdly, there is strong support for the hill livestock compensatory allowances , amounting to £142 million in a full year.
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Slightly increased maxima for compensatory allowances are specified. 6.
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Mr. Curry Payments to farmers under the 1992 hill livestock compensatory allowances scheme have already begun.
daily
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Many companies institutionalize dishonesty and exploitation of expenses by paying daily allowances .
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Know your average daily allowance for meat.
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In Long Kesh Prison, fellow prisoners used to save for him part of their daily allowance of milk.
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The current recommended daily allowance for vitamin E is 30 milligrams a day.
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To receive their full daily subsistence allowances , MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.
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Nutritional deficiency must be avoided by providing the recommended daily allowance of protein in the evening meal and later in the day.
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This time she asked Congress to approve a 100 percent increase in soldiers' daily allowance .
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The recommended daily allowance of B12 is three milligrams daily.
due
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However they will understand the difficulties of using such an unpredictable material as wood, and make due allowance for minor defects.
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Even when due allowance is made for the material advantages of Gloucester's lordship, there is no doubt of his personal attraction.
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However, when I later discussed the matter with him, he agreed and presumably was able to make due allowance .
full
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On the subject of Fanatics you should always buy the full allowance .
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In both cases your gross pay will be as normal, unless you have exhausted the full sickness allowance .
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To receive their full daily subsistence allowances , MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.
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I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband, applying for full attendance allowance on March 3.
generous
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Some firms do this by giving non-essential workers less generous relocation allowances than those given to key staff.
invalid
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The invalid care allowance she receives is 33.70 a week Marian set up a support group for carers in Oxfordshire.
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It calls for the invalid care allowance to be increased and extended in the budget.
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If you were entitled to maternity allowance , invalid care allowance or unemployability supplement.
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The current rate of invalid care allowance is £26.20.
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So Jaqueline and other women like her should now receive the invalid care allowance .
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As resources allow, we will improve and extend invalid care allowance .
living
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They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money.
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The disability working allowance - like its companion benefit, the disability living allowance - will be tax free.
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Their £140-a-day living allowance alone is about what pensioners get for their keep a month.
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Old age pensions were increased and cuts imposed in 1989 on public-sector salaries were restored together with some cost of living allowance arrears.
married
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Married couples will have the option of splitting the married couple's allowance between them as they choose.
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A married man living with his wife may also be able to claim part of the married couple's allowance .
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The rules apply to the basic married couple's allowance and also to the age-related addition.
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As with the personal allowance , older people enjoy a more generous married couple's allowance.
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In addition to this, there is a married couples's allowance which is usually paid to the man in the first instance.
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In addition, the Chancellor plans to restrict the married couple's allowance to the new low rate.
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Single person's allowance up £90 to £2425; married man's allowance up to £3795.
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But the married couples allowance is unchanged.
monthly
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I was looking forward to my day because I would be getting my monthly allowance of thirty pounds from my mum.
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It paid me a monthly allowance , which was never enough.
personal
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Income tax thresholds were raised from G$10,000 to G$48,000 with lower tax rates planned to offset the withdrawal of personal allowances .
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Each worker is given an income tax code number which is related to the total of his personal allowances .
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Under this there will be a basic personal allowance topped up by premiums for certain groups.
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Only people whose total income is less than their personal allowances are allowed to register for gross interest payments.
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The chancellor fully indexed personal income-tax allowances .
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As with the personal allowance , older people enjoy a more generous married couple's allowance.
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On the income tax front, both husband and wife have a personal allowance which is free of tax.
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Everyone retains a personal allowance of at least £12.65 per week.
single
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It offered married men a tax allowance of some one-and-a-half times the single person's allowance to which working wives were entitled.
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I refer to paid maternity leave, child allowance , single parent allowances etc.
special
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We have a special petrol allowance for that.
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Grants for mature students are income related, but special allowances are available.
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No special allowances are made for graduates, either.
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attendance
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If they are very ill they can claim other benefits, such as attendance allowance .
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We still have to wait months for payment of vitally important benefits such as the attendance allowance .
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These totals exclude mortgage interest and disregarded income, for example, attendance allowance .
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A councillor may give written notice to his council that he wishes to receive a financial loss allowance instead of an attendance allowance.
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He may revert to an attendance allowance by further written notice.
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In 1970 an attendance allowance was introduced, payable to a person in need of substantial care and attention.
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I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband, applying for full attendance allowance on March 3.
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In this context neither the attendance allowances nor the SRAs are sufficiently realistic.
care
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The invalid care allowance she receives is 33.70 a week Marian set up a support group for carers in Oxfordshire.
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Invalid care allowance For full details see leaflet NI212.
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It calls for the invalid care allowance to be increased and extended in the budget.
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To back this up we provide subsidised nurseries and a dependent care allowance to those whose hours change at short notice.
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If you were entitled to maternity allowance , invalid care allowance or unemployability supplement.
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The current rate of invalid care allowance is £26.20.
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So Jaqueline and other women like her should now receive the invalid care allowance .
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As resources allow, we will improve and extend invalid care allowance .
child
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Another form of child allowance was introduced during the first World War.
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My child allowance is approximately thirty-seven pounds a month so mum keeps seven pounds and I have thirty.
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I refer to paid maternity leave, child allowance , single parent allowances etc.
mileage
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Now the Government has proposed to crack down on mileage allowances by taxing drivers who cover large distances.
mobility
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Free car parking to people in receipt of mobility allowance and claiming exemption from road fund duty.
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These are child benefits, industrial injuries and death benefits, certain invalidity benefits, and attendance and mobility allowances .
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Female speaker Children under 5 aren't eligible for mobility allowance to help the parents with transport.
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The mobility allowance amounted initially to £10 a week and was recognised as anything but adequate.
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We will increase Invalidity Benefit by 15%, extend mobility allowance and base payments on medical records rather than National Insurance contributions.
relocation
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This raises the question of eligibility for relocation allowances .
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A section at the end looks at relocation allowances offered to new recruits who have to move to take up an appointment.
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Organisations may also not wish to pay relocation allowances to staff approaching retirement.
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Some firms do this by giving non-essential workers less generous relocation allowances than those given to key staff.
scheme
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However, many excess mortgage allowance schemes run for a shorter time, for instance, for five or seven years.
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It calculates that the Government has underfunded the incentive allowances scheme by some £12m a year.
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All these factors were intensified by rural population growth, although it was not in itself caused by the family-based allowance scheme .
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Mr. Curry Payments to farmers under the 1992 hill livestock compensatory allowances scheme have already begun.
seam
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Press the seam allowance to one side.
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Turn under the raw edge of the top seam allowance and tack in place over the trimmed edge.
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Also cut one from interfacing, without a seam allowance .
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Turn in the raw edges of both seam allowances towards each other and match the folded edges.
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Press seam allowance to the wrong side on the lining and notch out in the same way.
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Trim seam allowances and clip around curve.
sickness
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During the waiting days your pay will consist of the sickness allowance .
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In both cases your gross pay will be as normal, unless you have exhausted the full sickness allowance .
subsistence
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To receive their full daily subsistence allowances , MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.
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Travelling and subsistence allowances are not subject to tax.
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He would also have received a subsistence allowance from his employers.
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They consist of: £29 a day subsistence allowance to cover meals, taxis and other incidentals.
tax
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These include a capital gains tax cut, a 15% investment tax allowance and across-the-board tax rate cuts.
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Personal tax allowances are expected to be frozen and taxes on petrol, drink and tobacco raised.
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This could, of course, be extended to the whole range of non-personal tax allowances .
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Naval officers received no help from the Treasury for their outfits, though they were given a small tax allowance .
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Employers' social security contributions were reduced by 4.3 percent from Jan. 1, 1993, and income tax allowances were reduced.
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Pressure is mounting for tax allowances on childcare.
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And freezing personal tax allowances means more people will have to pay tax.
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Now John Smith has plans to borrow to increase tax allowances .
■ VERB
claim
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Registered blind people can claim an allowance of £1,080 a year.
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If both husband and wife are registered as blind, they can each claim the allowance .
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The wife, if she so wishes, will be able to claim half the allowance as of right.
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For an asset disposed of after 5 April 1985, a form of relief known as an indexation allowance may be claimed .
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Because everybody claimed the allowances , the cost of increasing the value of the tax allowances was substantially increased.
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Correct information must be made available to people who claim the new allowances .
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In respect of cars, there is a cap on the amount perannum for which Newco can claim allowances .
entitle
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Employees who are not at present house-owners may be entitled to a mortgage allowance in certain exceptional circumstances.
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Parties and witnesses are entitled to allowances for loss of earnings, subsistence and travel to and from the tribunal.
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If he does not, the customer is entitled to their part-exchange allowance instead.
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If you were entitled to maternity allowance , invalid care allowance or unemployability supplement.
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Everyone is entitled to a personal allowance .
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All the teachers in 1987 who were entitled to an allowance received one.
give
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Table 3.4 gives examples of disturbance allowances paid in 14 organisations.
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Instead of paying children for jobs, give an allowance that is not tied to performance.
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If Pickles really does love you, maybe the pater would give her a decent allowance and you'd manage somehow.
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As if water had the power of counsel, of giving allowance or giving notice against its own exploitation.
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Widows are given an allowance because they are deemed to have been financially dependent.
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Naval officers received no help from the Treasury for their outfits, though they were given a small tax allowance .
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Although her father gave her an allowance , within six months of starting work Kate could have managed without it.
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Isabella was sentenced to lose all her lands, but was given an allowance of £3,000 a year to maintain her estate.
include
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The new system should, it was argued, include family allowances , maternity benefits and provision for widows.
increase
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Allow 10% of the rate of increase of height, but increase this allowance to 20% when levelling from descent.
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They increased allowances for students who had protested against their abysmal living conditions, and they permitted a degree of press criticism.
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Now John Smith has plans to borrow to increase tax allowances .
make
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Second, the method makes no allowance for the loss of coinage from circulation.
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It is possible to make approximate allowance for backspace by releasing the source-machine off play-pause about one second late.
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An application for the allowance should be made on the mortgage allowance claim form.
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However they will understand the difficulties of using such an unpredictable material as wood, and make due allowance for minor defects.
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It makes no allowance for individual progression which does not follow this ordering.
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Those who claimed a break-even or loss situation did not make allowance for home produced food.
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Please make allowances for her - I expect you know her husband killed himself.
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Mr. Clark I make allowances for the fact that the hon. Gentleman clearly prepared his supplementary before the news was announced.
pay
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Many companies institutionalize dishonesty and exploitation of expenses by paying daily allowances .
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Sunday was when the Gap Kids got paid allowances and went shopping for Reeboks in refrigerated malls after church.
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The £95m improvement in non-performing loans would pay for these allowances for the next 100 years.
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It paid me a monthly allowance , which was never enough.
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Organisations may also not wish to pay relocation allowances to staff approaching retirement.
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Prudential Assurance, for example, pays a tax-free allowance of £77 per child towards the cost of replacing school uniforms.
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It is as if we were to pay family allowances to every third family on a different scale in each place.
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Social services have stopped paying a £30 attendance allowance for Becky to go to Southampton once every two months for treatment.
provide
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About four in 10 companies provide rented accommodation but only a fifth provide a housing allowance .
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Nutritional deficiency must be avoided by providing the recommended daily allowance of protein in the evening meal and later in the day.
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But the Government has provided compensation allowances in income support payments equal to the average poll tax bill in each council area.
receive
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Some relocation policies exclude new recruits from receiving other allowances , such as travel and accommodation expenses.
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White also will continue to receive a transportation allowance from the transit agency, totaling $ 7, 200.
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A councillor may give written notice to his council that he wishes to receive a financial loss allowance instead of an attendance allowance.
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The new president will receive an unspecified allowance for business and entertainment expenses, as well as 22 days vacation.
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Single employees who do not own property receive an allowance at a lower rate, paid for just one year.
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I only receive a severe disability allowance and finding two lots of money for dentists care will be difficulty.
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The lessor receives capital allowances against tax. 2.
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Except for an entitlement to a police car and driver when attending official functions, they receive no formal allowances .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
subsistence allowance/payment etc
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He would also have received a subsistence allowance from his employers.
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Parish authorities generally were constantly reviewing their ideas about what constituted a minimum acceptable subsistence payment during this period.
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They consist of: £29 a day subsistence allowance to cover meals, taxis and other incidentals.
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They recommended that volunteers receive subsistence payments for child minding and other special needs.
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To receive their full daily subsistence allowances, MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.
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Travelling and subsistence allowances are not subject to tax.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A glass of orange juice provides the recommended daily allowance of Vitamin C.
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Does your mom give you a clothing allowance ?
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I think my yearly allowance is about three hundred, you know, so I'm rapidly running out.
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In exchange for looking after the children, Annie has all her meals paid for and receives a small monthly allowance .
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Mom gave us kids a weekly allowance if we kept our rooms clean.
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Some students have an allowance from their parents.
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The baggage allowance is 75 pounds per person.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A large boost to their independent solvency has been the Friday night allowance .
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The young Moynihan urged enactment of a scheme called child or family allowances.
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These are child benefits, industrial injuries and death benefits, certain invalidity benefits, and attendance and mobility allowances.
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They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money.
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While imports required a royal allowance to buy and support, this car has always been priced at more affordable levels.