permit meaning
EN[pɚˈmɪt] [pəˈmɪt] [-ɪt] [ˈpɝmɪt] [ˈpɜːmɪt] [-ɜː(ɹ)mɪt]US US
WPermit
- Permit may refer to:
- Permit (fish), a game fish of the western Atlantic ocean belonging to the Carangidae family, Trachinotus falcatus
- Various legal licenses:
- License
- Work permit, legal authorization which allows a person to take employment
- Learner's permit, restricted license that is given to a person who is learning to drive
- International Driving Permit, allows an individual to drive a private motor vehicle in another nation
- Disabled parking permit, displayed upon a vehicle carrying a person whose mobility is significantly impaired
FR permit
- NounPLpermitsPREper-
- VerbSGpermitsPRpermittingPT, PPpermitted
- (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
- (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
- Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
- (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.
- (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible.
- (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of).
- (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
- The Building Department permitted that project last week.
- (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for (something).
- We've been busy permitting the State Street development.
- (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- He failed to do so; permitted his vendee to remove from the country fullhanded, though his own embarrassments should have urged him to enforce his claim, if in truth it had not been adjusted
- That was considered to be largely in sympathy with the course of the wheat market and a willingness on the part of crushers to permit quotations to sag off before according fresh support.
- Certainly the wishful dreaming of the passive film-goer is exploited by the film producer — but why does the film-goer permit himself to be controlled by his wishful dreaming?
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- My nosey next door neighbor turned me in for building my garage without a permit.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of permit in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary