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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority, permission |
| Synonyms: | authorization, carte blanche, certificate, charter, consent, dispensation, entitlement, exemption, freedom, go-ahead, grant, green light, immunity, independence, latitude, leave, liberty, okay*, permit, privilege, right, self-determination, ticket, unconstraint, warrant |
| Antonyms: | ban, prohibition, refusal, withholding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | passage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authorization; enactment |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, allowance, establishment, freedom, legalization, legislation, passing, passport, permission, ratification, right, safe-conduct, visa, warrant |
| Notes: | a passage is a one-way boat crossing; a voyage is a round trip journey by sea |
| Antonyms: | denial, refusal, veto |
| Main Entry: | permission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authorization, consent |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acknowledgment, acquiescence, admission, agreement, allowance, approbation, approval, assent, avowal, canonization, carte blanche, concession, concurrence, condonance, condonation, dispensation, empowerment, endorsement, freedom, imprimatur, indulgence, leave, letting, liberty, license, okay, permit, privilege, promise, recognition, rubber stamp, sanctification, sanction, stamp of approval, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, verification, warrant |
| Antonyms: | denial, prohibition, veto |
| Main Entry: | privilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | right, due |
| Synonyms: | advantage, allowance, appanage, appurtenance, authority, authorization, benefit, birthright, boon, chance, charter, claim, concession, entitlement, event, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, grant, immunity, liberty, license, opportunity, perquisite, prerogative, right, sanction |
| Notes: | a privilege is a right that may be extended to a group or a number of people; a prerogative is a right that, customarily, is vested in a single person |
| Antonyms: | detriment, disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | release |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delivery; dispensation |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, acquittance, charge, clemency, commute, deliverance, discharge, emancipation, exemption, exoneration, floater, freedom, freeing, let-off, liberation, liberty, lifeboat, lifesaver, manumission, relief, spring, turnout, walkout |
| Antonyms: | check, collection, gathering, hold |
| Main Entry: | right |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | privilege |
| Synonyms: | advantage, appanage, authority, benefit, birthright, business, claim, comeuppance, desert, deserving, due, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, immunity, interest, liberty, license, merit, permission, perquisite, power, preference, prerogative, priority, title |
| Notes: | right means free from error or correct in opinion or judgment; a wright is someone who makes, builds, or repairs something |
| Main Entry: | right |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice, morality |
| Synonyms: | correctness, emancipation, enfranchisement, equity, freedom, good, goodness, honor, independence, integrity, lawfulness, legality, liberty, properness, propriety, reason, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, straight, truth, uprightness, virtue |
| Notes: | right means free from error or correct in opinion or judgment; a wright is someone who makes, builds, or repairs something |
| Antonyms: | corruption, immorality, injustice, unfairness, unjustness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | safety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection from harm |
| Synonyms: | assurance, asylum, cover, defense, freedom, immunity, impregnability, inviolability, invulnerability, refuge, safeness, sanctuary, security, shelter |
| Antonyms: | danger, exposure, jeopardy, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | scope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent or range of something |
| Synonyms: | ambit, amplitude, area, breadth, capacity, compass, comprehensiveness, confines, elbow room, extension, field, field of reference, freedom, fullness, latitude, leeway, liberty, margin, opportunity, orbit, outlook, play, purview, radius, reach, room, run, space, span, sphere, wideness |
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