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permit🔊

To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.

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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.

To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.

To allow for, to make something possible.

To allow, to admit (of).

To grant formal authorization for (something).

To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for (something).

(now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).

An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.

A learner's permit.

(obsolete) Formal permission.

A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.

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