deployment overseas would be regarded as a permissible reason for late filing by members of the military
Recent Examples on the WebMost Johnson County cities do not have written rules stating when or where homeless shelters would be permissible, leading to heated neighborhood debates.—Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2024 Executive sessions to consider general personnel matters are not permissible.—Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 23 Feb. 2024 Yet the production reflects how some artists are trying to navigate the changing landscape of both what is permissible and what is marketable in China.—Claire Fu, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024 But on Alderney, the anti-FAB advocates proclaimed, no such surveying was permissible.—Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024 While this may have felt permissible in any other context, its presentation alongside the movie’s Ukrainian subjects — who have no such option to escape their circumstances — verges on betrayal, and momentarily renders her commentary futile.—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024 Emissions connected to basic human needs are usually regarded as permissible.—Trevor Hedberg, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024 Since then, permissible constructions of ambiguous statutes have proliferated — and the result is the modern and vastly expanded administrative state.—Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2024 In July, Sloan said the organization didn’t fit in any of the five categories of permissible contributors to candidates: individual, political party, county political party committee, legislative caucus committee or approved PAC.—Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Medieval Latin permissibilis, from Latin permissus, past participle of permittere
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