make allowance for

Idioms  

1. Also, make allowances for. Take into account extenuating circumstances, as in We have to make allowance for Jeff; he's very new to the business, or Grandma is always making allowances for the children's bad manners. [c. 1700]

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Example Sentences

"The welfare of the men is a priority, they will need time and support, and we hope and trust our media and community will make allowance for this."

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2024

Alas, my plan to sort and cull my thousands of books — described last week in my Zippy Shell column — failed to make allowance for human nature.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2020

Hutton believes, plausibly enough, that popular notions of fairness do make allowance for luck.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010

It will have to find a framework which will make allowance for the fundamental U.S. bias toward freedom and growth for itself and for others.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is therefore necessary to make allowance for these local deflections of the needle, in order to find the true variation of the needle.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

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