food allowance

collocation in English

meaningsoffoodandallowance

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food
noun[C or U]
uk
/fuːd/us
/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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allowance
noun
uk
/əˈlaʊ.əns/us
/əˈlaʊ.əns/
money that you are given regularly, especially to pay for a ...
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(Definition offoodandallowancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffood allowance

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It is quite true that afoodallowanceis paid in addition, but, even with that, the wages remain miserably low.
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Casual leave without pay orfoodallowanceis granted on request.
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I should like to say a word with regard to thefoodallowance.
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A variable boarding andfoodallowanceis payable and each volunteer receives a personal payment of £15·25 a week.
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Rest days are given without pay, although some mills grantfoodallowanceon such days.
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At home ports and certain naval establishments the ratings employed get what is known as afoodallowance.
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That will not be at the expense of their normal dailyfoodallowance.
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Let the men and the officers, so far as thefoodallowancegoes, be placed on the same footing as they were before.
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What it amounts to in practice is that they take £7 or £8 a week from theirfoodallowance.
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Hitherto the samefoodallowancehas been given to officers as well.
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I am not aware that a man's eligibility for an old age pension debars either him or his wife from receiving afoodallowancefrom the guardians.
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Hitherto the samefoodallowancewas given to officers and men.
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We were just barely getting by on a very smallfoodallowanceprovided to us.
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At his most highly paid, prior to the war, he earned $250 a month with a $1.50 dailyfoodallowance.
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Academic estimates of the annual value of thefoodallowance(alone), are around 3 per year.
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The averagefoodallowancewas 402 kg per head.
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Thefoodallowancefor prisoners was less than a penny a day including the profit of the warden while any human refuse was removed every four days.
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Competition for workers has driven wages up and improved the range of fringe and other benefits - including transportation, food allowances, sport facilities, etc. offered to workers.
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It was said that that excluded housing and food allowances, the housing allowance being a bundle of sticks from which one could construct a hut.
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