Noun

(en noun)

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

* Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --

Acknowledgment.

* The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --

That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.

* I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- .

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

* After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- .

(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

A child's allowance; pocket money.

She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.

(obsolete) approval; approbation

(Crabbe)

(obsolete) license; indulgence

(John Locke)

Noun

(en noun)

(typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.

The edge or border of any flat surface.

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The lobule margins , furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.

(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.

* 1999 , Pierre François, ''Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall, page 186,

As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.

A difference between results, characteristics, scores.

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A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.

margin of error

(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.

(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.