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1. amount, share, allotment, portion; given quantity, quota, ration, rate, stint.

2. grant, fellowship, scholarship, assistantship, stipend.

3. salary, pay, wages, hire, commission, sum, pittance, pin or pocket money; percentage, quarterage, expense account, viaticum; remittance, recompense, reward, renumeration; gratuity, tip, fee, douceur; annuity, pension, Law. alimony, maintenance; subsidy, subvention, subscription; aid, support, relief, help, dole, handout, alms.

4. endowment,, contribution, donation; benefit, boon, benefaction, bestowal, bestowment; present, gift, Fr. cadeau. award, tribute, honorarium; offering, favor, largess, bounty.

5. addition, increase, margin, qualification, modification, limitation, restriction; discount, decrease, deduction, reduction, rebate, abatement.

6. acknowledgement, concession, consent, granting; assent, accedence, acquiescence; agreement, approval, concurrence; admitting, admittance, recognition.

7. sanction, sanctioning, tolerance, sufferance, brooking, abidance, endurance; support; authorization, authority, approval, countenance, approbation, going along with; permission, leave, consent, assent, Law. connivance; license, permit.

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8. diet, regulate, restrict, select, limit; allocate, ration, stint, allot, dole out, dispense