Allowance may refer to:

• Allowance (engineering), a planned deviation between two dimensions
• Allowance (money), an amount of money given at regular intervals for a specific purpose
• Allowance for bad debts in accounting
• Carbon emission trading as an economic tool in climate change mitigation
  • Emissions trading for pollutants in general

• All pages with titles beginning with Allowance
• All pages with titles containing Allowance
• Welfare spending, a type of government support to ensure members of a society can meet basic human needs
• Allowance system, a 19th-century system of poor relief in Britain
• Allowance race, in North American horse racing
• Baggage allowance, the amount of baggage allowed per passenger
• EU Allowance in the European Union Emission Trading Scheme
• Personal allowance in the United Kingdom's taxing system
• Seam allowance in sewing