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Substantiivi

1. Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting.
2. Acknowledgment.
3. An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose.
4. Such a sum or portion granted to a family member or familiar, especially one's own child; pocket money for such a person.
5. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
6. (commerce) A deduction from the gross weight of goods, such as to discount their container's weight or per a custom differing by country.
7. (horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
8. (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.
9. (obsolete) Approval; approbation.
10. (obsolete) License; indulgence.
11. (engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
2. (transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.