Salary vs. Allowance

Salary vs. Allowance — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Salary and Allowance

Salarynoun

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.

Allowancenoun

permission; granting, conceding, or admitting

Salaryverb

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

Allowancenoun

Acknowledgment.

Salaryadjective

(obsolete) Saline.

Allowancenoun

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

her meagre allowance of food or drink
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Salarynoun

something that remunerates;

wages were paid by checkhe wasted his pay on drinkthey saved a quarter of all their earnings

Allowancenoun

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances

to make allowance for his naivety

Allowancenoun

(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries

Tare and tret are examples of allowance.

Allowancenoun

A child's allowance; pocket money.

She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

Allowancenoun

(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.

Allowancenoun

(obsolete) approval; approbation

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Allowancenoun

(obsolete) license; indulgence

Allowanceverb

(transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).

The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.

Allowanceverb

(transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

Our provisions were allowanced.

Allowancenoun

an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period);

travel allowancemy weekly allowance of two eggsa child's allowance should not be too generous

Allowancenoun

a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses

Allowancenoun

an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances;

an allowance for profit

Allowancenoun

a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

Allowancenoun

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

Allowancenoun

the act of allowing;

He objected to the allowance of smoking in the diningroom

Allowanceverb

put on a fixed allowance, as of food