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Definition of Permission

1. Noun. Approval to do something. "He asked permission to leave"

2. Noun. The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.

Definition of Permission

1. n. The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.

Definition of Permission

1. Noun. authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority) ¹

2. Noun. The act of permitting ¹

3. Noun. (computing) flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Permission

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Permission

permille permineralization permineralized perming permingeatite permiscible permiss permissable permisses permissibilities

permissibility permissible permissible exposure limit permissibleness permissibly permission permissionless permissions permissive permissive cell

permissive temperature permissive waste permissively permissiveness permissivities permissivity permit permit nature to take her course permit nature to take its course permition

Literary usage of Permission

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1902)
"Reported for first time by permission of attending physician. XXVII. Reported in full for first time by permission of Dr. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In case the contracting parties belong to different dioceses, the permission of one bishop (usually the one in whose diocese the marriage takes place) is ..."

3. European Enamels by Henry Hardinge Cunynghame (1906)
"76 By kind permission of the Central-Gewerbe-Verein, Dusseldorf Shrine of St. Mauritius and Innocentius at Siegburg . . 77 By kind permission of the ..."

4. Nippur: Or, Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates by John Punnett Peters (1897)
"IN behalf of the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, the United States Legation at Constantinople has applied for permission to excavate for ..."

5. King Lear by William Shakespeare (1860)
"... WITH THE KIND Permission OF THE EMINENT TRAGEDIAN, FROM HIS OWN PROMPT BOOK, AND AS ACTED BY HIM IN THE PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, ..."

6. Publications (1848)
"Lastly, this sufferance, or permission, of evil, is not for its own sake, but for the sake of good, which puts a respect of goodness upon such permission. ..."

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