allowable
[uh-lou-uh-buh l]
- that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible: an allowable tax deduction.
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- something, as an action or amount, that is allowed.
- Ecology. allowable cut.
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Origin of allowable
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Contemporary Examples
For example, Kuwait recently put a limit the allowable amount of sodium in bread to lower blood pressure.
Government officials have no allowable reasons for withholding critical data from lawmakers.
So the accountants had to go back, recalculate, and choose not to take nearly two million dollars in allowable deductions.
If this tape is allowable in court it may happily be just the evidence needed to land him in jail for domestic abuse.
Being brainy, being a wonk, is allowable when the package is lean and effortlessly hip, with serious eyes and a movie-star smile.
Historical Examples
"Well, then, it's allowable to wrong oneself," said Florence.
The Mystery of Murray DavenportRobert Neilson Stephens
Neither is it allowable in a Churchman when armed to confess it.
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, CompleteJean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
And is it allowable to honour the gods in any mode or fashion one likes?
The MemorabiliaXenophon
It is allowable to dislodge the enemy's spear by throwing your own over it.
Boy Scouts HandbookBoy Scouts of America
This doctrine is not merely that it is allowable to kill heretics, but that we are bound to do it.
Fox's Book of MartyrsJohn Foxe
allowable
- permissible; admissible
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Word Origin and History for allowable
adj.
late 14c., from Old French allouable, from allouer (see allow).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper