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Salary vs. Allowance

Salary and Allowance Definitions

Salary

Fixed compensation for services, paid to a person on a regular basis.

Allowance

The act of allowing.

Salary

A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.

Allowance

An amount that is allowed or granted
Consumed my weekly allowance of two eggs.

Salary

To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.

Allowance

Something, such as money, given at regular intervals or for a specific purpose
A travel allowance that covers hotel bills.
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Salary

(obsolete) Saline.

Allowance

A small amount of money regularly given to a child, often as payment for household chores.

Salary

Saline

Allowance

A price reduction, especially one granted in exchange for used merchandise
The dealer gave us an allowance on our old car.

Salary

The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
This is hire and salary, not revenge.

Allowance

To put on a fixed allowance
Cut expenses by strictly allowancing the sales representatives.
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Salary

To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

Allowance

To dispense in fixed quantities; ration.

Salary

Something that remunerates;
Wages were paid by check
He wasted his pay on drink
They saved a quarter of all their earnings

Allowance

Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting

Allowance

Acknowledgment.

Allowance

An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose
Her meagre allowance of food or drink
Being a volunteer is unpaid, but we get accommodation and a living allowance of 100 euros a week.
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Allowance

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
To make allowance for his naivety

Allowance

(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
Tare and tret are examples of allowance.

Allowance

(horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.

Allowance

A child's allowance; pocket money.
She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

Allowance

(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.

Allowance

(obsolete) Approval; approbation.

Allowance

(obsolete) License; indulgence.

Allowance

(engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.

Allowance

(transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.

Allowance

(transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
Our provisions were allowanced.

Allowance

Approval; approbation.

Allowance

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
Without the king's will or the state's allowance.

Allowance

Acknowledgment.
The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others.

Allowance

License; indulgence.

Allowance

That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
I can give the boy a handsome allowance.

Allowance

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
After making the largest allowance for fraud.

Allowance

A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

Allowance

To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

Allowance

An amount allowed or granted (as during a given period);
Travel allowance
My weekly allowance of two eggs
A child's allowance should not be too generous

Allowance

A sum granted as reimbursement for expenses

Allowance

An amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances;
An allowance for profit

Allowance

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

Allowance

A reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets

Allowance

The act of allowing;
He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom

Allowance

Put on a fixed allowance, as of food

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