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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From 1 February, it will no longer be permitted to pay in lev.
From BBC
Before filing the lawsuit, the Hillside Federation, a nonprofit representing roughly four dozen homeowner and resident associations in the Santa Monica Mountains, challenged the city on one permit approval it found particularly egregious.
From Los Angeles Times
As Zoë Schlanger reported in The Atlantic last January, this “might look like a failure of modeling, but really, it’s a testament to how bad climate change has been permitted to get, and how quickly.”
From Salon
Rain is expected for this year’s Rose Parade, but umbrellas are not permitted along the parade route because they block the view for others.
From Los Angeles Times
“Is it possible Russia would permit it to be re-registered in Russia without an inspection? It’s possible,” said Eugene Fidell, research scholar at Yale Law School and a former Coast Guard judge advocate general.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
