an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; "an allowance for profit" krzyżówka

a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal); "a shrub of spreading habit" (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72" United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters a unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo) a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain the basic unit of money in Ghana the basic unit of money in Gambia any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes black wine grape originally from the region of Bordeaux South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea type genus of the Rutaceae; strong-scented Eurasian herbs tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation any plant of the genus Inula