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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"  Antonyms: disallow, forbid.
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"  Antonym: prevent.
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



... political and social science, in such institutions as Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Columbia, Princeton, Union, Johns Hopkins University, the State Universities of Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia, Minnesota, and California, and I trust that you will permit me to ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various

... in caring for them, as far as food, clothing and shelter were concerned. She would dismiss her boarders. There had never been need of her taking boarders, but for the fraud of a wicked man. It was at this point that he needed help. Would Mrs. Fitzpatrick permit him to send her money from time to time which should be applied to the support of Paulina and the children. He would also pay ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor

... rope was kept on the bottom of the lake by the stone, while the two ends were carried forward by the boys until the bight was drawn under the keel of the steamer, as far as her position on the rocks would permit it to go. Lawry's end was made fast around the smokestack, and ...
— Haste and Waste • Oliver Optic

... and enabled them to give to the world the purest and most perfect system of morality that can be conceived, is it to be supposed that in the remainder of their writings he would leave them to themselves, and permit error or imposture to be mixed and confounded with truth?" No: from the same source cannot proceed sweet waters and bitter. As the moral precepts of the Gospel are divinely inspired, so, likewise, must be its doctrines. This reasoning appeared ...
— The Village in the Mountains; Conversion of Peter Bayssiere; and History of a Bible • Anonymous

... fall asleep; if they chance to awake they eat again. Half of them are asleep now, and snoring. The other half are eating slowly, for they are nearly full. The heat and smell are awful! I am perspiring at every pore. We have taken off as much of our clothes as decency will permit. Sam has on a pair of trousers—nothing more. I am in the same state! There is little room, as may be supposed. We have to lie huddled up as we best can, and a strange sight we are as the red light of the flaring lamp falls on us. At this moment Myouk's wife is cutting a fresh ...
— Fast in the Ice - Adventures in the Polar Regions • R.M. Ballantyne


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