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Allowable synonyms

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permissible
Permitted; allowable:
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  1. Permitted; allowable:
  2. That can be permitted; allowable
proper
Characteristically belonging to the being or thing in question; peculiar:
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  1. Characteristically belonging to the being or thing in question; peculiar:
  2. Strictly following rules or conventions, especially in social behavior; seemly:
  3. Out-and-out; thorough:
legal
In conformity with or permitted by law:
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  1. In conformity with or permitted by law:
  2. Established legally other than by statute, as by a judicial opinion:
  3. In terms of or created by the law:
admissible
(Artificial intelligence) Describing a heuristic that never overestimates the cost of reaching a goal.
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  1. (Artificial intelligence) Describing a heuristic that never overestimates the cost of reaching a goal.
  2. Capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed; allowable, permissible, acceptable
  3. That can be properly accepted or allowed
permissible
Permitted; allowable:
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  1. Permitted; allowable:
  2. That can be permitted; allowable
kosher
(Judaism) Clean or fit to eat according to the dietary laws: Lev. 11
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  1. (Judaism) Clean or fit to eat according to the dietary laws: Lev. 11
  2. (Judaism) Conforming to dietary laws; ritually pure:
  3. Selling or serving food prepared in accordance with dietary laws:
Find another word for allowable. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for allowable, like: permissible, proper, legal, admissible, admissible, permissible, kosher and allow.

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  • It was agreed that "lay assistants" were allowable, but only in cases of necessity.

  • The act had always been accounted allowable in the school, if circumstances should call for it: indeed, the first three teachers had found such circumstances.

  • As has been remarked above, the terror of postbaptismal sin and the fact that only one restoration was allowable influenced many as late as the 4th century to remain catechumens all their lives, and, like Constantine, to receive baptism on the deathbed alone.

  • It is a well-ascertained fact that the insulator, gutta-percha, is, when kept under water, practically imperishable, so that it is only the original strength of the sheathing wires and the deterioration allowable in them that have to be considered.

  • It is allowable to deceive an enemy by fabricated despatches purporting to come from his own side; by tampering with telegraph 1112Ssages; by spreading false intelligence in newspapers; by sending pretended spies and deserters to give him untrue reports of the numbers or movements of the troops; by employing false signals to lure him into an ambuscade.

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