allowment
allowment · allowments
An amount of money or resources that someone is allottedAn amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
(countable, uncountable)The act of allowing.
(countable, uncountable)A mapping of a hypothesis to the set of arguments that support or reject that hypothesis weighted by the probability of the hypothesis given each argument.
Origin
From allow + -ment.From allow + -ment.
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Forms
plural: allowments| Singular | allowment |
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable