Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not allowable; not to be sanctioned or permitted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not allowable; not to be suffered.

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  • adjective Able to be disallowed.
  • adjective Not allowable; not to be suffered or permitted; which should not be allowed.

Etymologies

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disallow +‎ -able.

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Examples

  • Operating income fell to $82 million from $90 million in the year-earlier period, hurt by $22 million in charges related to potentially disallowable costs incurred under U.S. government contracts in the Middle East for activities dating from 2003, the company said in a statement.

    KBR's Net Rises 65% 2008

  • Mr Corbell said Section 35 was itself a disallowable instrument, which meant the Howard-Ruddock move could be thwarted, but only by the improbable route of votes of both houses of Federal Parliament.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Zoe Brain 2006

  • Mr Corbell said Section 35 was itself a disallowable instrument, which meant the Howard-Ruddock move could be thwarted, but only by the improbable route of votes of both houses of Federal Parliament.

    Legal Impedimenta Zoe Brain 2006

  • These included recent efforts to improve the competence of lawyers and judges through a standardised, universal examination system; enactment of a new marriage law to provide women with more protection against domestic violence and further work towards amendments of the criminal evidence law that would make confessions extracted under torture disallowable as evidence in criminal prosecutions.

    Dialogue Helps Advance Human Rights in China 2002

  • But in the second place, admitting that the apostle's design here is to discountenance this practice, not only as weak and illaudable, but also as sinful and disallowable; yet I affirm, that he accounted it not sinful from the very nature of the action, but only the irregularity of the circumstance; that they went to law upon every slight occasion, before unbelievers, in verse 1.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • A proportion of City's revenues may also be disallowable.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • But this natural law teaches Bolingbroke some very strange things; shamefulness, e. g., is only an aspiration of man to be something better than the brute, or it is a mere social prejudice; polygamy is not immoral; on the contrary, it harmonizes with the law of nature, because it effects a, greater increase of the race; wedlock-communion is disallowable only between parents and children; all other degrees of relationship admit of it, for the highest law and end of marriage is propagation.

    Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

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