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Another word for permit

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Verb

  1. To neither forbid nor prevent

      1. To refrain from interfering with or prohibiting (something undesirable or outside one's own practice or beliefs); allow or permit:
      2. To recognize and respect (the rights, beliefs, or practices of others).
      3. To accept or be patient regarding (something unpleasant or undesirable); endure:
      1. To feel pain or distress; sustain injury or harm:
      2. To have a specified shortcoming or weakness:
      3. To sustain a loss, setback, or decline in effectiveness; become worse:
      1. To give permission or opportunity to; allow:
      2. To cause to; make:
      3. Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a command, request, or proposal:
      1. To be in possession of:
      2. To possess as a characteristic, quality, or function:
      3. To possess or contain as a constituent part:
      1. To let do or happen; permit:
      2. To permit the presence of:
      3. To permit to have:
    See also:

    allow

  2. To give one's consent to

      1. Satisfactory or agreeable; acceptable:
      2. Correct:
      3. Barely satisfactory; mediocre:
      1. Authoritative permission or approval that makes a course of action valid.
      2. Support or encouragement, as from public opinion or established custom.
      3. A consideration, influence, or principle that dictates an ethical choice.
      1. To give permission or opportunity to; allow:
      2. To cause to; make:
      3. Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a command, request, or proposal:
      1. To express approval of or give support to, especially by public statement; sanction:
      2. To recommend (a product), often in exchange for payment, as in an advertisement.
      3. To write one's signature on the back of (a check) to obtain the amount payable or to make the amount payable available to a third party or to the bearer.
      1. To give assent, as to the proposal of another; agree:
      2. To be of the same mind or opinion.
      3. Acceptance or approval of what is planned or done by another; acquiescence.
      1. To grant authority or power to.
      2. To give permission for (something); sanction:
      1. To consent to officially or formally; confirm or sanction:
      2. To consider right or good:
      3. To prove or attest.
      1. To sanction officially; authorize.
      1. To let do or happen; permit:
      2. To permit the presence of:
      3. To permit to have:
    See also:

    allow

  3. To afford an opportunity for

      1. To give permission or opportunity to; allow:
      2. To cause to; make:
      3. Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a command, request, or proposal:
      1. To let do or happen; permit:
      2. To permit the presence of:
      3. To permit to have:
      1. To grant to be real, valid, or true; acknowledge or concede:
      2. To disclose or confess (guilt or an error, for example).
      3. To afford opportunity for; permit:
    See also:

    allow

  4. To give the means, ability, or opportunity to do

      1. To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able:
      2. To make feasible or possible:
      3. To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to:
      1. To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.
      2. To equip or supply with an ability; enable:
    See also:

    allow

Noun

  1. The approving of an action, especially when done by one in authority

    See also:

    allow

  2. Proof of legal permission to do something

      1. A judicial writ authorizing the search or seizure of property, arrest of a person, or the execution of a legal judgment.
      2. A voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
      3. An option to buy stock at a specified price from an issuing company.
      1. Official or legal permission to engage in a regulated activity:
      2. A document, card, plate, or tag that is issued as proof of official or legal permission:
      3. A contract allowing someone to use a proprietary product or service:
    Idioms:
    See also:

    law

    allow

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Another word for permit

Noun
      1. A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.
      2. Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.
      3. The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity:
      1. The action or an instance of indulging:
      2. The state of being indulgent; tolerance:
      3. Something indulged in:
      1. The act of conceding.
      2. Something, such as a point previously claimed in argument, that is later conceded.
      3. An acknowledgment or admission.
      1. The process of making something legal, the process to legalize, decriminalization.
      1. Authoritative permission or approval that makes a course of action valid.
      2. Support or encouragement, as from public opinion or established custom.
      3. A consideration, influence, or principle that dictates an ethical choice.
      1. A document issued by a sovereign, legislature, or other authority, creating a public or private corporation, such as a city, college, or bank, and defining its privileges and purposes.
      2. A written grant from the sovereign power of a country conferring certain rights and privileges on a person, a corporation, or the people:
      3. A document outlining the principles, functions, and organization of a corporate body; a constitution:
      1. The act of authorizing.
      2. Something that authorizes; a sanction.
      1. Tolerance with respect to the actions and beliefs of others.
      2. Official recognition of the rights of individuals and groups to hold dissenting opinions, especially on religion.
      1. A gracious, friendly, or obliging act that is freely granted:
      2. Friendly or favorable regard; approval or support:
      3. A state of being held in such regard:
      1. To give assent, as to the proposal of another; agree:
      2. To be of the same mind or opinion.
      3. Acceptance or approval of what is planned or done by another; acquiescence.
      1. To allow or consent to the fulfillment of (something requested):
      2. To give or confer officially or formally:
      3. To transfer (property) by a deed.
      1. Official or legal permission to engage in a regulated activity:
      2. A document, card, plate, or tag that is issued as proof of official or legal permission:
      3. A contract allowing someone to use a proprietary product or service:
    See also:

    permission

    Antonyms:
Verb
  1. See also:

    allow

    allow

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Sentence Examples

  • The permit is withdrawn if the clearance is not obtained within three years.

  • His companions refused to permit him to surrender and were resolved to die.

  • Local authorities (particularly London and Glasgow) refused to permit the company to lay wires underground.

  • Only when she reached the other side of the bridge did she permit herself to breathe.

  • The college authorities would not permit Miss Sullivan to read the examination papers to me; so Mr. Eugene C. Vining, one of the instructors at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, was employed to copy the papers for me in braille.

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