allowable

[ uh-lou-uh-buh l ]

/ əˈlaʊ ə bəl /

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adjective

that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible: an allowable tax deduction.

noun

something, as an action or amount, that is allowed.

Ecology. allowable cut.

Origin of allowable

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Middle French word alouable. See allow, -able

OTHER WORDS FROM allowable

al·low·a·ble·ness, noun al·low·a·bly, adverb pre·al·low·a·ble, adjective pre·al·low·a·bly, adverb

un·al·low·a·ble, adjective

Words nearby allowable

allottee, allotype, allover, allow, allow for, allowable, allowable cut, allowance, allowance race, alloway, allowed

Example sentences from the Web for allowable

For example, Kuwait recently put a limit the allowable amount of sodium in bread to lower blood pressure.

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Government officials have no allowable reasons for withholding critical data from lawmakers.

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So the accountants had to go back, recalculate, and choose not to take nearly two million dollars in allowable deductions.

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If this tape is allowable in court it may happily be just the evidence needed to land him in jail for domestic abuse.

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Being brainy, being a wonk, is allowable when the package is lean and effortlessly hip, with serious eyes and a movie-star smile.

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Neither is it allowable in a Churchman when armed to confess it.

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My orders were such and the force with me also so small that no attack was allowable.

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First of all, the best part of a benefit is lost if a lawsuit is allowable, as in the case of a definite loan.

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It won for the infant institute in the person of Langethal—if the expression is allowable—the backbone.

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Is it allowable, Sergeant, for a rookie to ask what this is all about?

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British Dictionary definitions for allowable

allowable

/ (əˈlaʊəbəl) /

adjective

permissible; admissible

Derived forms of allowable

allowably, adverb

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