Usually means: Make provision or accommodation for.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. allow for: Merriam-Webster
  2. allow for: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. allow for: Vocabulary.com
  4. allow for: Wiktionary
  5. allow for: Dictionary.com
  6. allow for: Rhymezone
  7. allow for: FreeDictionary.org
  8. allow for: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. allow for: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. allow for: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  11. allow for: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allow for: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allow for: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (allow for)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To take into account, consider.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make possible; to allow.

Similar:
allow, leave, provide for, take into account, accommodate, take into consideration, take account of, reckon with, expect, take under advisement, more...

Types:
enable, permit, facilitate, authorize, more...

Phrases:
allow to use for a time, to allow for, does not allow for, allow for use, allow for different possibilities, more...

Adjectives:
allowed, liquidated, own, accommodate, authenticate, fess, ok, accept, avail, try, saught

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Similar:
allow, leave, provide for, take into account, accommodate, take into consideration, take account of, reckon with, expect, take under advisement, more...

Types:
enable, permit, facilitate, authorize, more...

Phrases:
allow to use for a time, to allow for, does not allow for, allow for use, allow for different possibilities, allow room for, more...

Adjectives:
allowed, liquidated, own, accommodate, authenticate, fess, ok, accept, avail, try, saught



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