Definitions for permit

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permit per·mit

Spelling: [verb per-mit; noun pur-mit, per- Permit is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in permit (eimprt).

Definitions for permit

noun

1. an authoritative or official certificate of permission; license:
2. a written order granting special permission to do something.
3. permission.
4. a pompano, Trachinotus falcatus, of the waters off the West Indies.

verb (used with object)

1. to allow to do something:
2. to allow to be done or occur:
3. to tolerate; agree to:
4. to afford opportunity for, or admit of:

verb (used without object)

1. to grant permission; allow liberty to do something.
2. to afford opportunity or possibility:
3. to allow or admit (usually followed by of):

Origin of permit

1425-75; late Middle English Latin permittere to let go through, give leave, equivalent to per- per- + mittere to let or make (someone) go. See a

Examples for permit

We are developing a strategy next year that will permit them to march in the street.

The organizers of the protest, who did not have a permit for the sit-in, refused to leave and police began to arrest them in mass.

“Please, please do not permit this to happen here in Florida,” wrote Cris K. Smith of East Polk County.

We can not permit ourselves to be narrowed and dwarfed by slogans and phrases.

May Heaven bless you, and permit us to meet again in another world, if not in this!

You permit your heart (little did I think it was such a froward one) to recoil.

If we permit our economy to drift and decline, the vulnerable will suffer most.

Before we get to all that, permit me a brief reflection on this matter of Steve Scalise.

Or perhaps EBT programs could permit the purchase of ethical items based on a sliding price scale.

By the law of God it could not be so annulled as to permit of the re-marriage of the parties.