permission
per·mis·sion
noun \pər-ˈmi-shən\Definition of PERMISSION
1
: the act of permitting
2
: formal consent : authorization
Examples of PERMISSION
- They got permission from the city to build an apartment complex.
- The teacher gave me her permission to go home early.
Origin of PERMISSION
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin permission-, permissio, from permittere
First Known Use: 15th century
Related to PERMISSION
- Synonyms
- allowance, authorization, clearance, concurrence, consent, granting, green light, leave, license (or licence), sanction, sufferance, warrant
- Antonyms
- interdiction, prohibition, proscription
Rhymes with PERMISSION
addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition
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