allowing

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /əˈlaʊɪŋ/

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Preposition

Preposition allowing

1. You use allowing for something, to show that you have thought about that thing in making your decision or getting your answer.

   Even allowing for inflation, $3.7 million is too big a change.

   Allowing that there is never a single correct solution to this problem, the following example offers one possible solution.

Verb

Plain form allow

Third-person singular allows

Past tense allowed

Past participle allowed

Present participle allowing

1. The present participle of allow.