allow for

Verb

Meaning

make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

provide allow leave consider expect predict acknowledge imagine take into account await anticipate contemplate foresee envisage scrutinize
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Antonyms

drop reject refuse ignore exclude forget
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Hypernyms

give yield afford

Derivatives

allowed for allowing for allows for

Examples

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow. Erma Bombeck

We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less. Eric Cantor

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. Naomi Wolf

We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. Stephen Hawking

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices. Bill Watterson

Like all strong-willed and self-asserting men, Mr. Chase had the faults of his qualities. He was never easy to drive in harness, or light in hand. He saw vividly what was wrong, and did not always allow for what was relatively right. Henry Adams

Close letter words and terms

allow entrance allow entry allow entry to allow fresh air inside allow in allow into