allow

to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest

to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow an appeal to allow the truth of a proposition

To allow a sum for leakage.

To allow a son to be absent.

Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.

When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.

The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.

Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers

Therefore so please thee to return with us,

And of our Athens—thine and ours—to take

The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,

Allow'd with absolute power, and thy good name

Live with authority. So soon we shall drive back

Of Alcibiades the approaches wild,

Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up

His country's peace.

How allow you the model of these clothes?

To allow an objection, to find in favour of the objection and forbid the conduct objected to; to allow an appeal, to decide the appeal in favour of the appellant (contrast grant leave to appeal, to permit an appeal to be heard).