What does PERMISSION mean?

Definitions for PERMISSION
pərˈmɪʃ ənper·mis·sion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. permissionnoun

    approval to do something

    "he asked permission to leave"

  2. license, permission, permitnoun

    the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

Wiktionary

  1. permissionnoun

    authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)

    Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?

  2. permissionnoun

    The act of permitting

  3. permissionnoun

    flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.

    I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.

  4. Etymology: From permitten, from permettre, from permittere.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Permissionnoun

    Allowance; grant of liberty.

    Etymology: permission, Fr. permissus, Lat.

    With thy permission then, and thus forewarn’d,
    The willinger I go. John Milton.

    You have given me your permission for this address, and encouraged me by your perusal and approbation. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. permission

    Permission is the authorization, consent, or allowance given to someone to do something. It refers to the act of allowing a particular action to take place or granting the right to use something, to access information, or to perform an action that is otherwise restricted or prohibited.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Permissionnoun

    the act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted

Wikidata

  1. Permission

    Permission, in philosophy, is the attribute of a person whose performance of a specific action, otherwise ethically wrong or dubious, would thereby involve no ethical fault. The term "permission" is more commonly used to refer to consent. Consent is the legal embodiment of the concept, in which approval is given to another party. Permissions depend on norms or institutions. Many permissions and obligations are complementary to each other, and deontic logic is a tool sometimes used in reasoning about such relationships.

Editors Contribution

  1. permission

    Authorization to do

    They choose to marry and have babies as soon as possible.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 15, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'PERMISSION' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3165

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'PERMISSION' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2746

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'PERMISSION' in Nouns Frequency: #1281

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of PERMISSION in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of PERMISSION in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of PERMISSION in a Sentence

  1. David Carroll:

    What the referendum did was gave permission to allow conversations to take place in places where it hadn't happened before: working class areas, rural areas. It allowed LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues to come out of the closet.

  2. Susan Lucci:

    I've had the opportunity to say to women, give yourself permission to take care of yourself, you are the caretaker for everyone around you, and if you're not well, they're not going to get taken care of either. So be guilt-free, put yourself on that to-do list. Your wellbeing is great for you, and it's great for everyone you love, who loves you.

  3. Bill Cosby:

    I don't hear her say anything. And I don't feel her say anything. And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection. I am not stopped.

  4. Danny DeVito:

    You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

  5. Lia Thomas:

    But I also don't need anybody's permission to be myself and to do the sport that I love.

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