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al‧low S1 W1 /əˈlaʊ/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : allouer, from Medieval Latin allocare ( ⇨ allocate) and from Latin adlaudare, from ad- 'to' + laudare 'to praise']
1. CAN DO SOMETHING to let someone do or have something, or let something happen SYN permit
allow somebody/something to do something
　 ▪ My parents wouldn’t allow me to go to the party.
　 ▪ Women are not allowed to enter the mosque.
　 ▪ Don’t allow your problems to dominate your life.
allow somebody something
　 ▪ Passengers are allowed one item of hand luggage each.
　 ▪ How much time are we allowed?
allow somebody in/out/up etc
　 ▪ I don’t allow the cat in the bedroom.
　 ▪ The audience is not allowed backstage.
something is (not) allowed (=something is or is not officially permitted)
　 ▪ Are dictionaries allowed in the exam?
　 ▪ We don’t allow diving in the pool.

2. MAKE SOMETHING POSSIBLE to make it possible for something to happen or for someone to do something, especially something helpful or useful SYN permit:
　 ▪ This adjustment of the figures allows a fairer comparison.
allow for
　 ▪ Our new system will allow for more efficient use of resources.
allow somebody to do something
　 ▪ A 24-hour ceasefire allowed the two armies to reach an agreement.
allow somebody something
　 ▪ a seat belt that allows the driver greater freedom of movement

3. HAVE ENOUGH OF SOMETHING to be sure that you have enough time, money, food etc available for a particular purpose
allow somebody something
　 ▪ Allow yourselves plenty of time to get to the airport.
allow something for somebody/something
　 ▪ I’ve allowed half a bottle of wine for each person.

4. CORRECT/PERMITTED formal to accept that something is correct or true, or that something is acceptable according to the rules or law
allow that
　 ▪ I allow that there may have been a mistake.
　 ▪ The judge allowed the evidence.

5. allow me
formal used as a polite way of offering to help someone do something:
　 ▪ ‘Allow me,’ the waiter said, opening the door.
⇨ let¹, forbid(1)
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THESAURUS
▪allow to say that someone can do something – used about parents, teachers, or people in authority :
　 ▪ They don’t allow students to chew gum in the classroom.
　 ▪ I’m not allowed to stay out after ten o'clock.
▪let [NOT IN PASSIVE]to allow someone to do something. Let is not used in the passive, and is much more commonly used in everyday English than allow :
　 ▪ Will your Mum let you come to the party?
　 ▪ I’ll borrow John’s bicycle, if he’ll let me.
▪permit formal if something is permitted, it is allowed according to the rules - used especially on written notices and announcements :
　 ▪ Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the building.
▪give somebody permission used when someone in an important official position decides to allow someone to do something :
　 ▪ He was given special permission to leave school early.
　 ▪ The Home Office has given him permission to stay in Britain indefinitely.
▪give your consent to say that you will allow someone to do something that will affect you personally, or a member of your family, when you have a legal right to say ‘no’ :
　 ▪ Her parents have given their consent to the marriage.
　 ▪ You can’t build on someone’s land without the owner’s consent.
▪give something the go-ahead to officially allow a planned project or activity to happen :
　 ▪ The government finally gave the go-ahead for a new terminal at Heathrow airport.
　 ▪ A new nuclear plant has been given the go-ahead.
▪authorize to officially or legally allow someone to do something - used about laws or people :
　 ▪ The UN resolution would authorize the use of force.
　 ▪ I never authorized them to give information about me to other banks.
▪entitle to give someone the right to do or have something :
　 ▪ The pass entitles you to travel on any bus, at any time, in Norwich.
　 ▪ If the goods are faulty, the customer is entitled to a refund.
▪sanction formal to give official approval and support for something :
　 ▪ The Truman administration refused to sanction a military attack.
　 ▪ The advertisements were sanctioned by the candidate himself.
allow for somebody/something phrasal verb
to consider the possible facts, problems, costs etc involved in something when making a plan, calculation, or judgment:
　 ▪ Allowing for inflation, the cost of the project will be $2 million.
　 ▪ You should always allow for the possibility that it might rain.
allow of something phrasal verb formal
to make it possible for something to happen or be accepted:
　 ▪ The facts allow of only one interpretation.

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a constitution allows sth
▪ The Constitution allows police to seize property used in a crime.
a loophole allows/enables sth
▪ Security loopholes allowed the terrorists to plant the bombs unnoticed.
allow a maximum
▪ To lose weight, allow yourself only 1,500 calories per day.
allow (sb) entry (also grant (sb) entryformal) (= let someone enter a place)
▪ Citizens of most EU countries are allowed automatic entry into Britain.
legislation allows sth
▪ It was a huge change when Russia passed legislation to allow the sale of private property.
uphold/allow an appeal (=give permission for a decision to be changed)
▪ Judge Gabriel Hutton upheld Smith's appeal against a £250 fine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
also
▪ The closures will also allow £483,000 extra to be spent on the region's remaining ten centres.
▪ Congress also allows the Department of Transportation to reference additional but unauthorized amounts in full-funding agreements.
▪ However, as noted above, the scheme also allows for two kinds of heterogeneity.
▪ It also allowed and even encouraged employers to threaten workers who want to organize.
▪ This extra width would also allow for right hand turning lanes to be incorporated at the junctions on to adjacent military land.
▪ It also allows employees to offer testimonials on which products and services are good, Phillips said.
▪ They also allowed a reconsideration of the duke's earlier endowment, some of which was surrendered.
▪ Each individual in a household is also allowed a personal exemption of $ 2000.
never
▪ She would never allow him a reason to pity her again, to hold her in contempt.
▪ Despite his feelings of insecurity, Joe never allowed himself to be intimidated by the other children.
▪ After the Ken Noakes episode in her life, she had never allowed anyone to come so close to her.
▪ Control the circumstances, never allow circumstances to control you.
▪ We should never allow ourselves to be swayed by our feelings.
▪ My parents never allowed me to go anywhere.
▪ But his message was lost on a people enjoying an economic and political freedom that he had never allowed them.
▪ However the planners never allowed it to open and the building is set to be demolished within the next few weeks.
NOUN
access
▪ With no words spoken the crowd parted before the old man, allowing him immediate access to the bar.
▪ Companies should allow reasonable access to documents and information.
▪ Reporters have not been allowed access to Chi Ma Wan or any of the other detention centres.
▪ The project could include a pedestrian bridge over Valley Parkway that would allow easy access to the arts center and City Hall.
▪ This allows Quatro Pro to access directly data from third-party databases.
▪ The extra plants at the surface allow her access to the top of the water to take air.
▪ We should be allowed unrestricted access to outside money sources.
▪ It was among the last countries in the region to allow access to the Internet.
appeal
▪ I agree with the reasons given for allowing the appeal.
▪ The High Court allowed the taxpayer's appeal and the Crown was given leave to appeal.
▪ To that extent I would allow these appeals.
▪ Accordingly, I allow the appeal and set aside the order.
▪ Held, allowing the appeal, but ordering a retrial.
▪ I agree with it and, for the reasons given him, I, too, would allow the appeal.
▪ For these reasons I would allow these appeals.
law
▪ Texas state law does not allow for the substitution of an independent candidate once he has won a spot on the ballot.
▪ Credit unions are by law not allowed to charge more than 12.6 percent interest on loans to their members.
▪ Federal law allows plaintiffs to collect up to $ 100, 000 per infringement.
▪ The Volkskammer on Jan. 11-12 gave a first reading to a law allowing an alternative of 18 months' civilian service.
▪ Arizona law allows rattlesnake hunters to catch a maximum of four snakes per day in each of the four major varieties.
▪ Algebraic laws alone only allow us to prove one occam program equal to another.
▪ However, Clinton has disregarded the debt ceiling law, allowing the nation to spiral further into debt.
system
▪ The government ration card system allows an urban family to buy a case of imported beer for about 400 Kwanza.
▪ Louis County Police developed a system that allows officers to call in their reports, rather than write them up.
▪ There should be a system allowing users to backtrack over previous links.
▪ The move follows complaints from television companies about the delay caused by the present system that allows three false starts.
▪ The state is passive in the productive system, allowing private actors to operate in a relatively unconstrained manner.
VERB
refuse
▪ The manager was refusing to allow the Committee to use the hall for nothing.
▪ The civil trial provided a more subdued sequel, since Fujisaki refused to allow television cameras into his courtroom.
▪ Non-classical literature is an unpleasant, disquieting literature which refuses to allow the sophisms of bourgeois complacency to go unchallenged.
▪ The same kind of yelping small-mindedness was shown when Thatcher refused to allow Roy Jenkins to take part in the Cenotaph service.
▪ Individually and collectively, they refuse to allow us to be foreigners through our worst pain.
▪ Say that if he refused to allow us to marry you would even run away with me?
▪ In fact, a federal bankruptcy court in 1994 refused to allow asbestos claims to go forward against Jim Walter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our apartment complex does not allow pets.
▪ Paul's bank now allows him £35 a week, and Geoff can withdraw no more than £40.
▪ The manager doesn't allow children in the bar.
▪ Under federal law, Indian nations are allowed to operate casinos on their reservations, with the state's permission.
▪ We do not allow eating in the classrooms.
▪ We do not allow people to smoke anywhere in the building.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At least one of the new filter starting bacteria mixes claims to allow you to start your tank fully stocked.
▪ He knows the Treasury does not allow departments to earmark tax revenues.
▪ He spent more than ten days in the neurology unit at Glasgow's Southern General before being allowed home.
▪ Most colleges will allow students to change their subject choices in the early weeks of an academic session.
▪ She has been allowed out now to visit her family because she has just married off her only daughter.
▪ We allow visitor play on Tuesdays and Thursdays.