permission

nounverbcommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//pəˈmɪʃ.ən//
United States//pəɹˈmɪʃ.ən//

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

noun

1
authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
2
The act of permitting.
3
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.

Etymology

From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Equivalent to permit + -ion. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).

verb

1
To grant or obtain authorization for.
Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.

Forms

plural: permissions
past tense: permissioned
past participle: permissioned
present participle: permissioning
third person singular: permissions

perky · Lively and often cheerful and enthusiastic.permanent · Without end, eternal.permanently · In a permanent manner; lastingly.

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

permit · To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.permitted · Allowed, authorized.perp · A perpetrator.

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