DCHP-2

allowance Fur Trade DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• n.

  in the Hudson's Bay Company, a specified amount of goods allowed to certain employees in addition to their salary.

  See also: voyage allowance  winter allowance  

  • 1777  (1951)  ... the two spare Men at the Sawyers Tent have ... come Home for Allowance of Provisions.
  • 1907  However, a scale of allowances of a few delicacies was allowed, and these were made up every year at the depot of each district and were for one year.
  • 1933  With them went their usual Allowances, as well as many special requisitions.