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allow for is a verb meaning "make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain". It carries one recorded sense.
make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
“This leaves no room for improvement”
“The evidence allows only one conclusion”
“allow for mistakes”
“leave lots of time for the trip”
“This procedure provides for lots of leeway”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for allow for come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.