In engineering, a designed adjustment to nominal dimensions, in order to allow for deviation within expected tolerance.
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Examples for "allowance "
1 Under existing rules, UK citizens already benefit from a five-figure tax-free allowance .
2 Instead, they subsist on a government allowance of £35 each per week.
3 However, current pensioners were rewarded with a permanent annual winter fuel allowance .
4 The tax allowance increase will increase millions of people on low income.
5 You can carry forward unused allowance from the three previous tax years.
1 Main measures: Recovery was the number of days from injury to clearance .
2 Alcatel CEO Michel Combes said the deal needed clearance in nine countries.
3 Without a tax clearance certificate, you're limited to R1 million a year.
4 That way, people wouldn't need a security clearance to use the equipment.
5 The sources say the final clearance will come from the Prime Minister.
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