Definition of "allowances" []

• Plural form of allowance. (noun)

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• "The arrangements that Mr. and Mrs. Ed Balls (respectively now the MPs for Normanton and Pontefract & Castleford) have whilst both collecting huge sums of money in allowances from the House of Commons are notorious."
• "This is a very out-of-date use of the term allowances - the whole point of the expenses reforms has been to abolish allowances (maximum payments, seen as a perk of the job and offered without production of receipts of payments) with a true expenses system."
• "Persons impeached and convicted by the Senate of The United States of America, or convicted of Treason in the Federal Courts, are forbidden election or appointment to any position of trust or responsibility in any branch, department or agency of the United States Government and are forbidden any pay or allowances from the same, excepting Social Security, medical benefits, and other payments and allowances offered to any other Person not serving in the government."