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make allowances for

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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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Nor will they barely make allowances for the errors which may be chargeable on the fallibility to which the convention, as a body of men, were liable; but will keep in mind, that they themselves also are but men, and ought not to assume an infallibility in rejudging the fallible opinions of others.
Now, I shouldn't like to think that any one had to make allowances for me.
Moody was in no humor to make allowances for the unbridled gayety of youth and good spirits.
 
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