allowing

verb

1. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.“to allow a servant his liberty;  to allow a free passage;  to allow one day for rest”
2. To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.“to allow a right;  to allow a claim;  to allow the truth of a proposition”
3. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.“To allow a sum for leakage.”
4. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.“Smoking allowed only in designated areas.”