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make allowances for
(redirected from allowance)

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make allowances for someone/something
to consider particular facts relating to someone or something. We try to make allowances for our students' different language backgrounds. When planning a trip, you have to make allowances for things that you can't know ahead of time, such as crowds or bad weather.
Related vocabulary: allow for something, take something into account
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