[{"_id":"574478cf49d89b54063c2066","lemma":"allow","pos":"verb","lexicalEntryId":"WktEN_lexicalEntry_14200","senses":[{"label":"","definition":"To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.","examples":["To allow a servant his liberty","To allow a free passage","To allow one day for rest.","He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. — Thomas Babington Macaulay."],"relations":[]},{"label":"","definition":"To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.","examples":["To allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.","I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. — William Makepeace Thackeray."],"relations":[]},{"label":"","definition":"To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct;","examples":["To allow a sum for leakage."],"relations":[]},{"label":"","definition":"To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.","examples":["To allow a son to be absent","Smoking allowed only in designated areas."],"relations":[]},{"label":"","definition":"To let something happen, to admit; to concede;","examples":[],"relations":[]},{"label":"","definition":"To take into account by making an allowance.","examples":["When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies."],"relations":[]}]}]