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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in the Hudson's Bay Company, a specified amount of goods allowed to certain employees in addition to their salary.
Quotations
1777
... 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.