1Officially allow (someone) to do something.

1. 1.1with object Authorize or allow (something)
   ‘the country is not ready to permit any rice imports’
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   • ‘House owners have permitted development rights which allow certain changes without planning permission.’
   • ‘Maintain multilevel security databases that safeguard sources and permit authorized access to unprocessed data.’
   • ‘In this case, the publisher may or may not grant a licence back to the author permitting some uses of the paper.’
   • ‘The Government has blamed local authority planners for permitting development on high-risk flood plains and riverbank sites.’
   • ‘If your state permits access to these databases, make plans to develop and implement a fingerprint checking program if you haven't already done so.’
   • ‘The Indian captain once again said the authorities should permit squads of more than 14 players in a one-day tournament of this nature.’
   • ‘The authorities concerned should not permit allotment of sites in a layout till the government's specifications are met.’
   • ‘The answer is take the request for deviating from ‘the policy’ to someone who has the authority to permit the deviation.’
   • ‘Either it was too physically demanding and dangerous or the authorities would not permit it.’
   • ‘Why should it not be inferred from such facts that the authorities permitted such use of the site?’
   • ‘When the sell-out was made on April 4, there was no written contract or authority to permit it.’
   • ‘I'd permit the licensed sale of virtually all class A, B and C substances.’
   • ‘The crucial point is that states must not permit export or import of waste if they believe that it will not be handled in an environmentally sound manner.’
   • ‘A bit of the pain already has been felt due to relaxed import rules which permit a flood of cheap Asian products.’
   • ‘What it does not do is rectify the injustice of permitting a conviction based on evidence the defendant is not allowed to see personally.’
   • ‘All European royal houses allow for female succession, a few permitting succession by the first-born regardless of sex.’
   • ‘Only city staff and city council seemed to be off-side, which is why the current plan and the agreement authorized by the city would not permit them.’
   • ‘The reader has to allow for the age of the book and to permit it to be a pleasurable read.’
   • ‘The parent is not permitted to give blanket consent, but must accompany the child to the game room.’
   • ‘No hospital or clinic, of course, would admit that it was permitting these procedures, but the point would have been made.’
2. 1.2with object Provide an opportunity or scope for (something) to take place; make possible.
   ‘the car park was too rutted and stony to permit ball games’
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   • ‘ weather permitting, guests can dine outside on the veranda’
   • ‘cycle parking stands are being installed, where space permits, at most rail stations’
   • ‘Improved security of the facility containing the matrix is provided by a feature permitting remote control over the facility door lock.’
   • ‘This evaluation permits the identification of possible common patterns underlying the crop production forecast errors.’
   • ‘Studies of men carrying out such duties should therefore provide information which would permit quantification of effects and lead to selection and training methods.’
   • ‘Although labour has been plentiful and cheap, vineyards are designed wherever possible to permit the passage of tractors for cultivation and treatment purposes.’
   • ‘The warning is justified since the information provided is insufficient to permit meaningful conclusions.’
   • ‘The School will be open from 4pm on the day and if weather permits a special Mass will be celebrated outside at 6pm.’
   • ‘Aging blood vessels provide the environment that permits vascular disease to flourish.’
   • ‘Weather permitting all Masses will take place in the Cemetery.’
   • ‘Regardless of that, it was enormous fun and I hope to be out and about doing it again, weather permitting this weekend.’
   • ‘Weather permitting a trip will also take place around the Botanic Gardens.’
   • ‘In addition, schedules rarely permit small police units to use the facilities of the bigger departments.’
   • ‘Weather permitting, it shouldn't be long before Nicky finds the right race.’
   • ‘Weather permitting, take a nice walk and just enjoy your surroundings.’
   • ‘Weather permitting, there will be a barbecue, bouncy castle and dance troupe.’
   • ‘As much as circumstances permit I intend to be fairly self-indulgent and lazy today.’
   • ‘Be assured that our aim is to restore a better balance when circumstances permit.’
   • ‘Extensive information is available, which permits comparison of client groups with well-established norms.’
   • ‘Such quantitative measurements permit inferences about the topology and internal organization of this organelle.’
   • ‘This permits high precision and allows the use of very small samples, like seeds.’
   • ‘This type of soil will permit good drainage while allowing sufficient water retention.’
3. 1.3permit offormal no object Allow for; admit of.
   ‘the camp permits of no really successful defence’
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   • ‘But do our actions permit of an end to the cycle of bloodshed?’
   • ‘Now, you have to go further, do you not, and say that that tape really only permitted of one conclusion.’
   • ‘In this case the absence of entries permits of the inference that nothing was charted because nothing was done.’
   • ‘As an ideology nationalism has, like the other concepts mentioned above, many variants and permits of no easy one-line definition.’
   • ‘This is an unqualified right which permits of no derogation.’

An official document giving someone authorization to do something.

A deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western Atlantic and Caribbean and caught for food and sport.

Trachinotus falcatus, family Carangidae