Allow for
Allow for verb - To give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies).
To allow
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- regard and allow for
- regard and to allow
- recognize and allow for
- recognize and to allow
- grant and allow for
- grant and to allow
- provide and allow for
- provide and to allow
- allow and allow for
- allow and to allow
- consider and allow for
- consider and to allow
- acknowledge and allow for
- acknowledge and to allow
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The Necromancer's skills allow for a 'Meleemancer' build, which relies on primarily on curses to allow the Necro to cherrytap monsters to death without much risk.
Source: Video Game / Diablo II -
And work is in progress to allow for multiple instances running on multiple PCs, primarily to allow for game streaming from one PC to another or to a Steam Machine, but with the nice side effect of letting enthusiasts with multiple PCs update one PC while playing a game on another.
Source: Copy Protection -
Street Fighter II: Champion Edition was produced largely to allow this sort of match - the original Street Fighter II didn't allow for mirror matches (except for the SNES version shown above, which featured a code that could be inputted when the game started).
Source: Mirror Match
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To allow and Allow for. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow_for/to_allow
Allow for & To allow. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow_for/to_allow>.
To allow or Allow for. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow_for/to_allow.
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