make allowances for (someone/something)

to consider particular facts relating to someone or something.

We try to make allowances for our students' different language backgrounds.

When planning a trip, you have to make allowances for things that you can't know ahead of time, such as crowds or bad weather.

Related vocabulary: allow for something, take something into account

• snap out of something
• snap someone's head off
• Snap to it!
• snap up
• snap up something
• sniff out
• sniff out someone
• sniff out something
• snowball effect
• snowed under
• snow job
• snuff movie
• snuff out
• snuff out something
• soaked to the skin
• soak up
• soak up something
• sob heart out
• sob story
• sob your heart out
• social climber
• sock one
• socks off
• socks off someone
• sock someone one