permit
Usage
What are other ways to say permit?
Both verbs that imply granting or conceding the right of someone to do something, permit and allow are often interchangeable, but permit is the more positive of the two. Permit suggests formal or implied assent or authorization. Allow implies complete absence of an attempt, or even an intent, to hinder. Let is the familiar, conversational term for both allow and permit.
Example Sentences
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Some are excluded altogether; others are permitted to operate, but only within tightly defined political and regulatory limits.
From BBC
Agents are permitted to speak to people in the store in public areas, and workers can’t interfere with the agents or help others hide, the document says.
Mealing-Jones said the intervention "would more likely lead to injury" and "could be interpreted to mean that swimming is permitted".
From BBC
The test runs behind closed doors, with no access for independent media, from 26-30 January at Barcelona's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, where teams are permitted to run on three of the five days.
From BBC
The department has faced criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle over the number of redactions in the files, which the law permits only to protect victims' identities and active criminal investigations.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
