Another word for permit | Synonyms for permit

Another word for permit

permit Synonyms

permit

n.

license, grant, consent, favor, toleration, authorization, empowering, charter, sanction, legalization, concession, indulgence, privilege; see also permission.

Antonyms denial*, veto, prohibition.

permit Synonyms

permit

v.

allow, authorize, sanction, consent to; see allow 1. See syn. study at allow.

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Another word for permit

verb

To neither forbid nor prevent:
allow, have, let, suffer, tolerate. See allow
To give one's consent to:
allow, approbate, approve, authorize, consent, endorse, let, sanction. (Informal) OK. See allow
To afford an opportunity for:
admit, allow, let. See allow
To give the means, ability, or opportunity to do:
empower, enable. See allow

noun

The approving of an action, especially when done by one in authority:
allowance, approbation, approval, authorization, consent, endorsement, leave², license, permission, sanction. (Informal) OK. See allow
Proof of legal permission to do something:
license, warrant. Idiom: piece of paper. See allow, law

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The permit is withdrawn if the clearance is not obtained within three years.
Local authorities (particularly London and Glasgow) refused to permit the company to lay wires underground.
His companions refused to permit him to surrender and were resolved to die.
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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