disallowance
Plural: disallowances
Noun
- The action of not allowing, or of withdrawing allowance.
- A power a higher level authority has to disallow particular legislation of the lower level jurisdiction; such as a federal government disallowing state/provincial legislation, or the British monarch disallowing colonial legislation.
Origin / Etymology
From dis- + allowance and disallow + -ance; may be analyzed as dis- + allow + -ance.
Scrabble Score: 18
disallowance: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddisallowance: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
disallowance: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 22
disallowance: valid Words With Friends Word