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Rebate vs Allowance - What's the difference?

rebate | allowance |

As nouns the difference between rebate and allowance

is that rebate is a deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement while allowance is the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

As verbs the difference between rebate and allowance

is that rebate is to deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment while allowance is to put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

rebate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.
  • The return of part of an amount already paid.
  • (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
  • A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
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  • A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
  • An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
  • A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "rebate") * * PhotoNotes.org Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography

    Verb

    (rebat)
  • To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
  • To diminish or lessen something
  • To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
  • * Shakespeare
    • But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
  • To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
  • To abate; to withdraw.
    • (Foxe)

    Anagrams

    * * * English transitive verbs ----

    allowance

    English

    (wikipedia allowance)

    Alternative forms

    * allowaunce (obsolete)

    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)

    Synonyms

    * (money) * (minting) (l), (l)

    Verb

    (allowanc)
  • To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
    • The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
    Our provisions were allowanced .