unallowable
1
6.4
- adjective
- /ˌʌnəˈlaʊəbl/
- Formal
:
no permitido
- The auditor flagged several transactions as unallowable, leading to delays in processing the company's funding requests.
Examples
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Cigarettes, therefore, while unallowable in many auditoriums or at least in outside balcony and loge smoking sections, maintained their position as an accoutrement acceptable to the point of standardized invisibility in the general cinematic environment.
Academic text (2016) -
This company expense was just part of the $1.4 million in unallowable expenses found by the ORS.
Blog text (31) -
For example, a bank or credit card company may charge each customer an unallowable $2 per month fee.
Blog text (5) -
And what it does, it is it'll start to shade out unallowable regions to achieve those kinds of goals.
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Since no women in Texas are head football coaches and very few, if any, are assistant football coaches, it becomes analogous to sex-segregated newspaper job announcements that have been deemed to promote unallowable employment discrimination due to sex (Passaic Daily News v. Blair, 1973).
Academic text (2007) -
According to the guidelines, any expenses that are deemed unallowable cannot be reimbursed by the organization.
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The expenses listed in the report included unallowable charges that the committee rejected during their review.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Not allowed by law or official rules
256
3.2
Not good enough or not allowed by rules
110
4.5
Not officially allowed to do something
102
4.6
Not allowed to enter, use, or talk about
96
3.2
Not allowed by law, rules, or custom
71
4.0
Not allowed by law
44
2.2
Not allowed by rules and not good enough for standards
31
6.1
Not allowed by law
30
7.7
Not allowed as evidence in a court hearing
7
9.2
Not allowed by rules or by social custom
6
7.7
Not allowed by rules, laws, or official standards
1
3.7
Not allowed by law or by an authority
Not allowed by law or by people in charge
Not allowed by law or by people in charge
The law bans it
Antonyms
How Permitted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unallowable breaks into three parts: un- meaning 'not', allow meaning 'to let or permit', as in allowance, and -able meaning 'able to be'. So unallowable simply means 'not allowed' or 'not permitted by the rules'.