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What does allowable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word allowable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable.
  2. Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
  3. Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
  4. Permissible; tolerable; legitimate.
  5. (obsolete) Praiseworthy.
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Worse, the nuclear reactor installation was done poorly, exposing the engine crew to five times the allowable annual dose of radiation.
Here, its application is intended to provide the information necessary to define maximum, allowable levels of mercury in Everglades food webs.
Small fishing communities can band together and purchase a group quota of the total allowable catch of any given fish species.
They detail a number of tactics that the Justice Department believed were allowable.
Advertising costs and the legal cost of drawing up rental leases are also allowable as deductions.
They have created a cartel in which chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery are the only allowable and reimbursable therapies.

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