The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ALLOWANCE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ALLOWANCE
- Spending money in a new local, getting drunk
- Grant everybody that hurts a new church
- Financial support for a new local development
- Sum granted to repair ocean wall
- Concession from NATO? For one, that hurt
- Pocket money could get booze to hold sad party in Africa
- Share in ball, now dance all topless!
- Amount’s first cut accepting reduced payment
- Leeway of little magnitude in a cavalry weapon
- A cut limits inadequate grant
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What does ALLOWANCE mean?
ALLOWANCE noun- Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
- Acknowledgment.
- That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity.
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
- A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
- A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
- A child's allowance; pocket money.
- (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
- Approval; approbation
- License; indulgence
- To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
- To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.