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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



... nothing to account for the terror and eagerness in Truffey's pale face, nor for his precipitate flight. But being short-sighted and inquisitive, he set off after Truffey as fast as the dignity proper to an elderly weaver and a deacon of the missionars would permit. ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... eyes—an abundance of them. I tapped the powder into the nipple; adjusted a cap; and, dismounting, set forth upon the stalk. The spreading tops of the cotton-woods concealed me; and, crouching under them, I made my approaches as rapidly as the nature of the ground would permit. It grew damper as I advanced; and, presently, I passed pools of water and patches of smooth mud—where water had recently lain. It was the bed of an intermittent stream—a hydrographic phenomenon of frequent occurrence in the central regions ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... advantages of night and day marches. All agreed that, if only one march had to be done, it was better to do it at night; but when, as in the present case, it would last for seven or eight days, many thought that, terrible as would be the heat, it would be better to march in the day, and permit the troops to sleep at night. This opinion certainly seemed to be justified; for, at the end of the third day, the men were so completely worn out from want of sleep that they stumbled as they marched; and were ...
— With Kitchener in the Soudan - A Story of Atbara and Omdurman • G. A. Henty

... evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and naval attacks during World War II; occupied by US military during World War II, but abandoned after the war; public entry is by special-use permit only and generally restricted to ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... the not unfrequent complication with organic disease of the spleen and consequent dropsy. Apis, used in the same manner, effects, in as short a period as the intensity of the symptoms will permit, a mitigation and gradual disappearance of the painfulness of the spleen, restores the normal action of the spleen more and more, and neutralises the tendency to dropsical effusion at the same time as it expels the accumulated fluid by increasing the secretions from ...
— Apis Mellifica - or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent • C. W. Wolf


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