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Allow   /əlˈaʊ/   Listen
Allow

verb
(past & past part. allowed; pres. part. allowing)
1.
Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen.  Synonyms: let, permit.  "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement" , "This will permit the rain to run off"
2.
Consent to, give permission.  Synonyms: countenance, let, permit.  "I won't let the police search her basement" , "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
3.
Let have.  Synonym: grant.  "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"
4.
Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause.  Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside.  "She sets aside time for meditation every day"
5.
Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain.  Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide.  "The evidence allows only one conclusion" , "Allow for mistakes" , "Leave lots of time for the trip" , "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
6.
Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something.  Synonym: take into account.  "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash"
7.
Afford possibility.  Synonym: admit.  "This short story allows of several different interpretations"
8.
Allow the other (baseball) team to score.  Synonym: give up.
9.
Grant as a discount or in exchange.
10.
Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting.  Synonyms: permit, tolerate.  "Children are not permitted beyond this point" , "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"



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"Allow" Quotes from Famous Books



... tripping jocundly along in attenuated Indian file. It made it no less pathetic to see that they were brilliant, gallant, much-loved, early epauletted fellows, who did not let twenty-one catch them without wives sealed with the authentic wedding kiss, nor allow twenty-two to find them without an heir. But they had a sad aptness for dying young. It was altogether supposable that they would have spread out broadly in the land; but they were such inveterate duelists, such brave Indian-fighters, ...
— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable

... Johannes to the archbishopric, and we shall comply with the pope's wishes as to a reformation of the Christian Church and religion. But if his Holiness, against our honor and the peace of our subjects, sides with the crime-stained partisans of Archbishop Trolle, we shall allow his legate to return to Rome, and shall govern the Church in this country with the authority which we have as king, and in a manner which we believe will please God as well as all the princes of Christendom. We beg you, however, to use your authority in the Apostolic See in ...
— The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa • Paul Barron Watson

... Emperor. Although much of his prestige was gone, they never made little of Napoleon. He intended to leave some of the best troops to confront Schwarzenberg between Nogent and Montereau, under Victor and Oudinot, hard fighters both, with instructions not to engage in any decisive battle, not to allow themselves to be trapped into that, but to stand on the defensive, to hold the River Seine, to retreat foot by foot, if pressed, to take advantage of every cover, to hold the enemy in check, to contest every ...
— The Eagle of the Empire - A Story of Waterloo • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... no message," he replied. "But he's a liberal man, Mr. Hurn, sir." He grinned and slapped his pocket; then, with a look of doubt, he straightened out one leg to allow his hand inside; the look grew more doubting; he stood up and searched systematically, ...
— Shapes that Haunt the Dusk • Various

... did not concern the negro in any way. In 1869 the legislature of Louisiana had given a corporation in that state the exclusive right to slaughter cattle within a large area, and had forbidden other persons to construct slaughter-houses within the limits of this region, but the corporation was to allow any other persons to use its buildings and equipment, charging fixed fees for the privilege. Cases were brought before the courts to determine whether the law violated that part of the Fourteenth Amendment which forbids a state to pass laws abridging the privileges of citizens ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley


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