Allowance vs Credit - What's the difference?
allowance | credit | Synonyms |
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.
(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
(obsolete) license; indulgence
To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
To believe; to put credence in.
* Shakespeare
(accounting) To add to an account (confer debit.)
To acknowledge the contribution of.
To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
* South
Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
* Bible, 1 Macc. x. 46
(uncountable) Recognition and respect.
* Cowper
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(countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.
(uncountable, legal, business) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid.
The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
(uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).
(accounting) An addition to certain accounts.
(tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
A source of value, distinction or honour.
* Alexander Pope
An arbitrary unit of value, used in many token economies.
(uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
(countable) A (course credit), a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.
Allowance is a synonym of credit.
As nouns the difference between allowance and credit
is that allowance is the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance while credit is credit.As a verb allowance
is to put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.allowance
English
(wikipedia allowance)Alternative forms
* allowaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
- (Crabbe)
- (John Locke)
Synonyms
* (money) * (minting) (l), (l)Verb
(allowanc)- The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
- Our provisions were allowanced .
credit
English
Verb
(en verb)- Someone said there were over 100,000 people there, but I can't credit that.
- How shall they credit / A poor unlearned virgin?
- Credit accounts receivable with the amount of the invoice.
- For the payroll period credit employees' tips to their wages paid account and debit their minimum wage payable account.
- The full amount of the purchase has been credited to your account.
- I credit the town council with restoring the shopping district.
- Credit the point guard with another assist.
- You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.
Noun
- When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit into them, nor received them.
- I give you credit for owning up to your mistake.
- He arrived five minutes late, but to his credit he did work an extra ten minutes at the end of his shift.
- John Gilpin was a citizen / Of credit and renown.
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- She received a singing credit in last year's operetta.
- They kissed, and then the credits rolled.
- In view of your payment record, we are happy to extend further credit to you.
- a long credit''' or a short '''credit
- What do you mean my credit is no good?
- Didn't you know that the IRS will refund any excess payroll taxes that you paid if you use the 45(B) general business credit ?
- That engineer is a credit to the team.
- I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please.
- To repair your star cruiser will cost 100,000 credits .
- Would you like to play? I put in a dollar and I've got two credits left.
- If you do not come to class, you will not get credit for the class, regardless of how well you do on the final.
- Dude, I just need 3 more credits to graduate – I can take socio-linguistics of Swahili if I want.