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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Reforming Austin’s permit process was a key priority for Mayor Kirk Watson, he tells Barron’s.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
Hours later, he joined activists outside the Garden Grove City Council chambers to demand that the city deny GKN Aerospace an expansion permit and look into shutting down the 15.5-acre facility altogether.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Flemish-Artois Coastal Environmental Defense Assembly, an environmental group known as ADELFA, challenged the decision in November last year, arguing the permit should be withdrawn because the facility violated local planning rules.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Babies eligible to work in New York need a permit and are subject to caps on how long they work, depending on age.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
The wife suggested that they find some way to get the permit pulled from the school, so then they’d have to keep the metal detectors off.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
Vocabulary lists containing permit
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