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"Those giving the support won't know what they can do and what is disallowable, and when people are confused they tend to withdraw," she said.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2021

Her expenditure on official engagements is deductible from taxable income, but her dresses are not because they are likely to serve "a personal purpose which makes it disallowable".

From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2012

They still regard the effort to establish permanently a foreign and imperial government in Mexico as disallowable and impracticable.

From The United States and Latin America by Latane, John Holladay