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allowed
adjective as in accepted
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acknowledged, approved, authorized, confirmed, conventional, customary, endorsed, established, fashionable, popular, preferred, received, recognized, sanctioned, time-honored, universal, welcomed
adjective as in admissible
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acceptable, applicable, appropriate, concedable, fair, fitting, just, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, likely, logical, not impossible, not unlikely, okay, passable, permitted, possible, probable, proper, rational, reasonable, right, suitable, tolerable, tolerated, warranted, worthy
adjective as in approved
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accepted, authorized, backed, endorsed, passed, permitted, ratified, recognized, sanctioned, supported
Weak matches
adjective as in free
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able, at large, clear, easy, independent, loose, open, unfettered, unrestricted
adjective as in immune
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favored, hardened to, insusceptible, irresponsible, licensed, not affected, not liable, not subject, privileged, protected, unanswerable, unliable, unsusceptible
adjective as in legal
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constitutional, contractual, fair, juridical, lawful, legitimate, proper, statutory, valid
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acknowledged, authorized, card-carrying, chartered, clean, condign, decreed, due, enforceable, enforced, enjoined, forensic, granted, innocent, judged, judicial, just, justifiable, justified, legalized, legit, licit, on the level, on the up and up, ordained, passed, precedented, prescribed, protected, right, rightful, sanctioned, sound, straight, sure-enough, warranted, within the law
adjective as in licensed
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adjective as in permitted
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acceptable, allowable, approved, authorized, licensed, sanctioned
adjective as in recognized
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accepted, identified, known, perceived, remembered, sanctioned
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adjective as in sanctioned
adjective as in unrestricted
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able, at liberty, free-spirited, independent, lax, liberal, liberated, on one's own, open, relaxed, unbounded, uncommitted, unconstrained
adjective as in warranted
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assured, certified, guaranteed, justified, sanctioned, secured
Weak match
Example Sentences
The Siri & Search entry, for example, means data from an allowed app will show up when you search your device manually or with Siri.
A Wall Street person should not be allowed to help oversee the Dodd-Frank reforms.
In other words, Florida clerks were no longer allowed to turn gay couples away.
During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.
States were encouraged and allowed to lower standards to make it appear they were improving.
Users “should be allowed to use these devices and services the way they were intended,” Brookman says.
In these rooms male and female alike were confined, at one time to the number of fifteen; each being allowed 3d.
It took twenty Eskimos to hold it when allowed full play, and even these it jerked about in a manner that highly diverted them.
I went out, and found a Mont de Piet, just beyond the limits of the Principality; they aren't allowed inside.
I found that I had been allowed to acquire certain bad habits and besetting sins—most people do.
There is more of the uplifted forefinger and the reiterated point than I should have allowed myself in an essay.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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