allowed
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
allow/əˈlaʊ/
▶verb
- 1 let (someone) have or do something.
■ admit as legal or acceptable.
- 2 (often allow for) take into consideration when making plans or calculations.
■ (allow for) make provision or provide scope for.
■ provide or set aside for a purpose.
- 3 admit the truth of.
– derivatives
allowable adjective,
allowably adverb,
allowedly adverb.
allowable adjective,
allowably adverb,
allowedly adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. alouer, from L. allaudare ‘to praise’, reinforced by med. L. allocare (see allocate).
'allowed' also found in these Oxford entries:
admittance
- allowance
- beer money
- bias
- bisque
- clearance
- collation
- commonable
- cost
- courtesy
- cumulative voting
- denizen
- dress-down Friday
- drift net
- drop hammer
- emeritus
- eruv
- exceed
- excess baggage
- flor
- forbid
- grace
- hack
- impermissible
- inadmissible
- injury time
- Joule–Thomson effect
- latria
- leave
- legal aid
- leisure
- liberty
- licit
- margin
- Mudejar
- mulligan
- net national product
- offside
- open
- operate
- overrun
- pass key
- permissive
- playtime
- quota
- ration
- rugby league
- sabbatical year
- selection rule
- septic tank
