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Permit   /pərmˈɪt/  /pˈərmˌɪt/   Listen
Permit

verb
(past & past part. permitted; pres. part. permitting)
1.
Consent to, give permission.  Synonyms: allow, countenance, let.  "I won't let the police search her basement" , "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
2.
Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen.  Synonyms: allow, let.  "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement" , "This will permit the rain to run off"
3.
Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting.  Synonyms: allow, tolerate.  "Children are not permitted beyond this point" , "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"
noun
1.
A legal document giving official permission to do something.  Synonyms: licence, license.
2.
The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.  Synonyms: license, permission.
3.
Large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies.  Synonym: Trachinotus falcatus.



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"Permit" Quotes from Famous Books



... a present which would leave no doubt as to my generosity and permit me to feel properly quits of her, as of a kept woman, but I should have felt that I was offending by the least appearance of trafficking, if not the love which she had for me, at all events the love which I ...
— Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) • Alexandre Dumas, fils

... Ecuador has implemented trade agreements with Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela and has applied for GATT membership. At the end of 1991, Ecuador received a standby IMF loan of $105 million, which will permit the country to proceed with the rescheduling of Paris Club debt. In September 1992, the government launched a new, macroeconomic program that gives more play to market forces; as of March 1993, the program seemed to be paying off. National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $11.8 ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... the Royal family. His principal desire was to attend the French Academy; but as the Academy did not permit strangers to address their meetings, Jasmin was under the necessity of adopting another ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles

... reply, unheard by his wife, who stole away to undress herself noiselessly, and laid herself down on her side of the bed as gently as her stiffened limbs would permit. ...
— Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... rein loose. Clean hands? Saul, who consented to Stephen's death, was as red-handed as the man who hurled the first stone: what better was it to let the boy ride to his fate unaided? That way there was no cleansing of hands. To permit a preventable ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond


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