The phrase "allowance in return for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a compensation or benefit given in exchange for a service or action.
Example: "The company offered an allowance in return for the extra hours worked during the busy season."
Alternatives: "compensation for" or "payment in exchange for".
The son of a clergyman, Farquhar entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a sizar (one who received a college allowance in return for performing menial duties), but he preferred working as an unsuccessful actor at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.
Our AmeriCorps VISTA members are asked to serve their communities under conditions of hardship, receiving a poverty-level living allowance in return for their one year commitment of service.
Refiners could get the extra allowances in return for cutting carbon emissions by 50percentt at a single point of a vast refinery complex instead of slashing emissions by 50percentt for the entire facility.
Since then, hundreds of co-ops have set up all over the region, attracted by generous tax allowances in return for investing 10% of their annual surpluses in the local community to support education, cultural activities and youth employment.
SeekingArrangement.com – the site wealthy men used to find attractive young women, before paying them allowances in return for some one-on-one time – is now called Seeking.com.
From 2008, incapacity benefits will be replaced by a new employment and support allowance, paid in return for "undertaking work-related interviews, agreeing an action plan and participating in some sort of work-related activity".
The task for these rail fondlers, he said, is to "keep Obama on a short leash and give him an allowance every few months in return for better behavior, as you do with your kids". Norquist couldn't quite settle on a metaphor for Obama, because he viewed him not only as a dog and a child but also as a lame duck.
He is at college and not earning, so I had agreed an allowance of £135 a month in return for which he would do some of the housework.
Indeed, the dreams and hopes of the migrant community remain underpinned by the unspoken accord made between the CCP and the Chinese populace in the post-Tiananmen environment -- allowance for unfettered economic freedoms in return for acquiescence to the absolute rule of the Party.
More coalition wheeling and dealing, with Cameron forced to bring forward plans on tax incentives for married couples to avert yet another backbench revolt, and the Lib Dems reportedly pushing for concessions on the tax-free personal allowance in return.
Lisbeth is a ward of the Swedish state and thus vulnerable to a guardian who inflicts sexual humiliation on her, and later a gruesome rape, in return for the allowance that's her due.
