make allowances for something

make allowances for something
make allowances for (someone/something) to consider particular facts relating to someone or something.

We try to make allowances for our students' different language backgrounds.

When planning a trip, you have to make allowances for things that you can't know ahead of time, such as crowds or bad weather.

Related vocabulary: allow for something, take something into account

New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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