Allowable vs Disallowable - What's the difference?
allowable | disallowable |
Appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable.
Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
Permissible; tolerable; legitimate.
(obsolete) Praiseworthy.
Able]] to be [[disallow#Verb, disallowed.
* 1858 , George Bush, Notes, critical and practical, on the book of Numbers , page 125:
* 1994 , Judith Brett, James A. Gillespie, Murray Goot, Developments in Australian politics , page 126:
* 2002 , Taxation: Policy and Practice , page 13:
* 2005 , Peter Sutherland, Social security and family assistance law , page 354:
Not allowable; not to be suffered or permitted; which should not be allowed.
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As adjectives the difference between allowable and disallowable
is that allowable is appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable while disallowable is able]] to be [[disallow#verb|disallowed.allowable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (permissible) levefulDerived terms
* allowableness * allowablydisallowable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But in the subsequent ages a Levite was not disallowable by years, neither by blemishes, but by voice; when his voice failed by reason of extreme old age, he was disabled from serving in the sanctuary.
- Much of this legislation is not disallowable and thus falls outside parliamentary scrutiny (Argument 1992: 13).
- Subscriptions and donations to political parties are usually disallowable but in the case of Morgan v Tate and Lyle Ltd (1954) a political donation to the Conservative Party was allowed because it was made in order to resist the nationalisation of the sugar industry proposed by the Labour Party
- The Declaration is not disallowable and therefore was not gazetted.