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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
permit
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
issue a passport/permit/visa etc
▪ The US State Department issues millions of passports each year.
learner's permit
permit/promise/guarantee etc safe passage (to/for sb)
▪ The government offered safe passage to militants taking up their offer of peace talks.
weather permitting (=if the weather is good enough)
▪ Breakfast is served on the terrace, weather permitting.
work permit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
development
▪ Butter, sugar and cheese would never have been permitted were they present-day developments.
▪ It will permit the development of a city waterfront that would be an asset to a major city anywhere in the world.
▪ Some councils have tried to tackle this difficulty through a policy of permitting only those new developments that will serve local needs.
▪ The prerogatives attached to shareholding at present would have to be broken to permit the development of social planning and enterprise democracy.
law
▪ In the United States, Oregon has a law permitting some assisted suicides.
▪ Disruptive persons would succeed in their objects, and that is not something that the law should permit.
▪ The law will not permit that.
▪ The contracts are the first under a new law the company says permits the practice, an interpretation Blumenthal says is wrong.
rule
▪ One of these rules permits soldiers to fire on vehicles being driven directly at people.
▪ So they take advantage of a rule that permits them to spend money left over from their campaigns on themselves.
▪ The new rule does not permit openly gay people to serve in uniform.
▪ Unfortunately the current rules permit this competitor to compete in the amateur class instead of the professional class.
use
▪ As an alternative to undergravel filters, funds permitting, the use of a power filter is the next best thing.
▪ Enzyme treatment permits the use of dry heat methods of cooking for less tender cuts.
▪ Sensibly, exemptions may be permitted for essential uses, such as medical aerosols and some fire extinguishers.
▪ The Bakke decision permitted the use of race or national origin as a factor in college admissions.
▪ Only that which has been officially authorised is permitted for use in services.
▪ Further, the lower drag permits the use of large, flimsy, low-strength structures.
▪ Furthermore it can permit coal use in boilers originally designed to burn oil without substantial derating.
weather
▪ Play would resume, weather permitting, tomorrow evening.
▪ The meeting could take place as soon as today, weather permitting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a new system that permits greater flexibility
▪ Horseback riding is not permitted in the park.
▪ I would like to go into this argument in some detail, but time does not permit it.
▪ If time permits, you can repeat the process.
▪ In summer, meals are eaten in the garden, weather permitting.
▪ Photography will not be permitted inside the courtroom.
▪ The facts permit of no other explanation.
▪ The law permits foreign investors to own up to 25% of British companies.
▪ Unit pricing is a system that permits the customer to compare the costs of products.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Addressing the public stigma of mental illness, which permits the unscrupulous to collude with vulnerable patients, is another.
▪ At some meetings during the twenties and thirties unofficial Roman Catholic observers were permitted.
▪ Comparison of the Orbiter and Lauder data permits a detailed portrait of the origin and evolution of a giant dust storm.
▪ It noted that adjustments are permitted in the case of adoption and legitimation.
▪ Prisoners are in a block downstairs, and are never permitted, for any purpose, above that level.
▪ The production of a visceral-specific anti-peptide antibody should permit a further investigation of its expression in smooth muscle cells.
▪ This permits opportunities for specialised or interdisciplinary research which are outstanding.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
special
▪ I was in the country without a husband and needed a special permit to get in!
▪ Threatening lions can be killed under special permit by the Fish and Game Department.
▪ I have seen his special permit.
■ NOUN
work
▪ Kharin's three-and-a-half-year contract with Chelsea is expected to be ratified within the next week, when he receives a work permit.
▪ People from other countries require work permits, which are granted for specific periods depending on job shortages.
▪ Richard spent two years in Beverly Hills and had to leave when his work permit expired.
▪ Andersson, capped 15 times, should be eligible in the New Year after work permit formalities have been sorted out.
▪ Furthermore, the proportion of work permits issued to inhabitants of Commonwealth countries has also fallen.
▪ A £5,000 fee has been agreed but the deal is subject to a work permit.
▪ She had problems getting a work permit, which halved her time putting Crawford through his steps.
▪ A government decree linked the employment of foreigners to their possession of a work permit, it was reported on Oct. 11.
■ VERB
apply
▪ And Triton, in turn, applied for a permit to drill Cusiana.
▪ Farmers must apply for permits to use the new chemicals and attend training sessions, Minch said.
▪ Smith dutifully applied for a parade permit.
get
▪ And getting a permit for a waste-to-energy plant is every bit as difficult as getting one for a landfill in most places.
▪ You got to get a permit for those, and the permits are real expensive, okay?
▪ She had problems getting a work permit, which halved her time putting Crawford through his steps.
▪ I liked the Scotch so I got him the permit.
▪ There are not a lot of jobs you can get without a work permit, being a Registered Alien like me.
▪ Before going into the wilds surrounding Kino Peak, you must get a backcountry permit from the visitor center.
grant
▪ The owners wanted rent, and the government, after granting residence permits, stopped paying.
▪ Texas-Lehigh Cement Company in Buda was recently granted a permit to burn tires for fuel.
issue
▪ The county Department of Environmental Quality is slated to issue an air-quality permit decision sometime this month.
▪ Throughout all of Texas' 254 counties, only 150 black men and 13 black women have been issued permits.
▪ This is what I think -- that one or two inspectors were very reluctant to issue permits.
▪ Then the Park District flatly refused to issue them a permit.
need
▪ The 13 Buddhist hill tribes called off their insurgency three years ago, and foreigners no longer need a permit to visit.
▪ The church needed the permit to continue holding services in the building, which is zoned for business uses.
▪ Visitors need a backcountry permit from the visitor center before going into the wilds of Organ Pipe.
obtain
▪ Hunters must obtain a permit and there are bag limits on the numbers of goats that can be shot.
▪ Under law, a rancher may obtain a permit to kill a lion that is attacking his livestock.
▪ Fishing: Locally obtained permit necessary; there are 20 varieties of fish in the lake!
▪ It requires anyone seeking to open a liquor store in a high-crime area to obtain a conditional-use permit from the city.
▪ Fishing: Fish are abundant; locally obtained fishing permit required.
▪ Security National spent $ 1. 2 million and six years before obtaining its operating permits for Singing Hills, Quist said.
▪ To see the Grand Canyon it is first essential to obtain an overnight camping permit.
▪ Since the law went into effect in July 1994, more than 35, 000 Arizonans have obtained concealed-weapons permits.
require
▪ With certain limited exceptions all care provisions require a permit by the youth department in order to be allowed to function.
▪ Bulldozers could move in soon afterward if required permits have been granted.
▪ People from other countries require work permits, which are granted for specific periods depending on job shortages.
▪ Most industrial states, however, require a State permit.
▪ Speaking in public requires a permit from the police.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many spouses of diplomats are unable to pursue their careers because they lack U.S. work permits.
▪ You can't park here unless you have a permit.
▪ You can't park there without a permit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Instead of shelving the permits, as residential builders do, Rohr forged ahead with construction.
▪ Overall, 10, 043 permits have been issued, with more than 40, 000 other applications still pending.
▪ People from other countries require work permits, which are granted for specific periods depending on job shortages.
▪ Police were not interested in her marriage certificate, her permit to leave home or her temporary residence card for Zhuhai.
▪ The permit, which is free, also has an information sheet which states 11 separate conditions concerning the use of skips.
▪ The tradable permit approach has launched a new industry that brokers deals between firms.
▪ Then Mr Stein would have two permits and regulations don't like that.
▪ With this permit, Mrs Hicks can purchase a weapon and carry it anywhere inside the Bay State.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Permit

Permit \Per*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Permitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Permitting.] [L. permittere, permissum, to let through, to allow, permit; per + mittere to let go, send. See Per-, and Mission.]

  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

    What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone.
    --Hooker.

  2. To grant (one) express license or liberty to do an act; to authorize; to give leave; -- followed by an infinitive.

    Thou art permitted to speak for thyself.
    --Acis xxvi. 1.

  3. To give over; to resign; to leave; to commit.

    Let us not aggravate our sorrows, But to the gods permit the event of things.
    --Addison.

    Syn: To allow; let; grant; admit; suffer; tolerate; endure; consent to.

    Usage: To Allow, Permit, Suffer, Tolerate. To allow is more positive, denoting (at least originally and etymologically) a decided assent, either directly or by implication. To permit is more negative, and imports only acquiescence or an abstinence from prevention. The distinction, however, is often disregarded by good writers. To suffer has a stronger passive or negative sense than to permit, sometimes implying against the will, sometimes mere indifference. To tolerate is to endure what is contrary to will or desire. To suffer and to tolerate are sometimes used without discrimination.

Permit

Permit \Per*mit"\, v. i. To grant permission; to allow.

Permit

Permit \Per"mit\, n. Warrant; license; leave; permission; specifically, a written license or permission given to a person or persons having authority; as, a permit to land goods subject to duty.

Permit

Permit \Per*mit"\, n. [Cf. Sp. palamida a kind of scombroid fish.]

  1. A large pompano ( Trachinotus goodei) of the West Indies, Florida, etc. It becomes about three feet long.

  2. The round pompano. ( Trachinotus falcatus). [Local, U. S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
permit

late 15c., from Middle French permetre and directly from Latin permittere "let pass, let go, let loose; give up, hand over; let, allow, grant, permit," from per- "through" (see per) + mittere "let go, send" (see mission). Related: Permitted; permitting.

permit

"written statement of permission or license," 1714, from permit (v.).

Wiktionary
permit

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) Formal permission. (16th-19th c.) 2 An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal. (from 17th c.) vb. 1 (context now archaic rare English) To hand over, resign (something to someone). (from 15th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. (from 15th c.) Etymology 2

n. A pompano of the species (taxlink Trachinotus falcatus species noshow=1).

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WordNet
permit

  1. n. a legal document giving official permission to do something [syn: license, licence]

  2. the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: license, permission]

  3. large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies [syn: Trachinotus falcatus]

  4. [also: permitting, permitted]

permit

  1. v. consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" [syn: allow, let, countenance] [ant: forbid, forbid]

  2. make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off" [syn: let, allow] [ant: prevent]

  3. allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital" [syn: allow, tolerate]

  4. [also: permitting, permitted]

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Wikipedia
Permit (fish)

The permit, Trachinotus falcatus, is a game fish of the western Atlantic Ocean belonging to the Carangidae family. Adults feed on crabs, shrimp, and smaller fish. Two submarines of the United States Navy were named USS Permit in its honor, in keeping with the "denizens of the deep" theme of submarine names that prevailed before the 1971 naming of USS Los Angeles.

Permit

Permit may refer to:

  • Permit (fish), a game fish of the western Atlantic ocean belonging to the Carangidae family, Trachinotus falcatus
  • Various legal licenses:

:* License

:* Work permit, legal authorization which allows a person to take employment

:* Learner's permit, restricted license that is given to a person who is learning to drive

:* International Driving Permit, allows an individual to drive a private motor vehicle in another nation

:* Disabled parking permit, displayed upon a vehicle carrying a person whose mobility is significantly impaired

:* Protest permit, permission granted by a governmental agency for a demonstration

:* Construction permit, required in most jurisdictions for new construction, or adding onto pre-existing structures

:* Filming Permit, required in most jurisdictions for filming motion pictures and television

:* Home Return Permit, Mainland (China) Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Residents

:* One-way Permit, document issued by the PRC allowing residents of mainland China to leave the mainland for Hong Kong

  • Thresher/Permit class submarine, a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines in service with the United States Navy
  • USS Permit (SS-178), a Porpoise-class submarine of the United States Navy
  • USS Permit (SSN-594), the lead ship of her class of submarine of the United States Navy
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Usage examples of "permit".

Fortunately, if today we could make every man white, every woman as like man as nature permits, give to every human being the same opportunity of education, and divide equally among all the accumulated wealth of the world, tomorrow differences, unequal possession, and differentiation would begin again.

Permit no unnecessary accumulation of bottles, or any thing that can in any way render the room unpleasant.

The afflicted were permitted to be near the accused during the examination, and they increasingly charged that the accused were audacious enough to harm them in the presence of authorities.

If any of the legionaries were permitted to return from the Italian expedition, their faithful report of the court and character of Honorius must have tended to dissolve the bonds of allegiance, and to exasperate the seditious temper of the British army.

By this latest allonge to the Sacred Covenant Priestess Poogli agrees to permit an all-out food-netting in her newly discovered preserve at the bottom of our universe.

Yet, her faculties confused, hurried, and in anguish, permitted little more than incoherent ejaculations.

The government resolved wisely to permit the meeting to assemble, at the same time announcing that any attempt to cross the bridges in a formal procession would be resisted.

Theory permits its information to be available in that universewhich would become parallel to thisand the information would provide for the development of the anthropic principle.

An elegant supper was provided for the entertainment of the bishop, and his Christian friends were permitted for the last time to enjoy his society, whilst the streets were filled with a multitude of the faithful, anxious and alarmed at the approaching fate of their spiritual father.

State owes to its citizens, it may exercise its jurisdiction over real and personal property situated within its borders belonging to a nonresident and permit an appropriation of the same in attachment proceedings to satisfy a debt owed by the nonresident to one of its citizens or to settle a claim for damages founded upon a wrong inflicted on the citizen by the nonresident.

By an act passed in 1865 Congress had prescribed that before any person should be permitted to practice in a federal court he must take oath asserting that he had never voluntarily borne arms against the United States, had never given aid or comfort to enemies of the United States, and so on.

There were, however, specifications on record as to what mechanical amplification was permitted the management of the Fact, the frequency of the programming and the nights on which public gatherings could be held and the maximum number of people permitted to gather.

Menippea, where everything is permitted and nothing decided, dissolves the metaphysics of Dostoyevsky, whose creative thought is a struggle to reconcile four antinomic freedoms, two of which oppose the other two.

It decided to seek the path of Peace not along the lines of permitted autocracy, but of firmly and thoroughly well administered democracy.

The government of Antago permits thirty horses to be removed from Azul Island every five years.