allow

1. (ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.Examples: "to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest"; "[…] he needed a great deal of money, but his uncle only allowed him two thousand roubles a year, which was not enough, and for days together he would run about Moscow with his tongue out, as the saying is."Synonyms: grant, admit, afford, yield, give, permit, allot, bestowditransitive

2. (transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.Examples: "I will allow my son to be absent."; "With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]"Synonyms: permit, let, grant licence to, consent, grantcatenativetransitive

3. (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion.Examples: "to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow an appeal"; "You must allow that disagreeing about politics puts a strain on a relationship."; "Mr. Knightley, I shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case."Synonyms: concede, accede, acquiescetransitive

4. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.Examples: "to allow a sum for leakage"transitive

5. (transitive) To make an allowance, to take into account when making plans.Examples: "When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies."transitive

6. (transitive) To render physically possible.Examples: "The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill."; "A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays."transitive