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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The company will support the new commercials with digital, social media and billboard advertising in cities around the U.S., including places that don’t yet permit its driverless cars in their streets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Records show that in May 2025, Dana Katz, the foundation’s executive director, reached out to the mayor’s office with a request to waive permit and rental fees associated with installing the new readers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
The updated permit also allows the site to temporarily store and move some hazardous and clinical waste, although these materials will not be burned there.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
It was a notice from an energy company seeking a state air permit to build a power plant.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
Though he had not sought out the impending duel with Burr, there was nothing in Hamilton’s lifelong pattern that would permit a self-consciously bland and supremely triumphant refusal of the challenge.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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