permitted

American  

[per-mit-id] / pərˈmɪt ɪd /

adjective

1. allowed or tolerated.

   One lettuce contained a gene-mutating compound at over sixty times the permitted level.

2. given permission to do something; authorized.

   Some of the user-uploaded data should only be accessible to a permitted group of users.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of permit.

Other Word Forms

• nonpermitted adjective
• permittedly adverb
• unpermitted adjective

Etymology

Origin of permitted

permit ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Previously only Class B and Class D taxis - mostly London-style black cabs and wheelchair-accessible vehicles - were permitted to use the bus lanes.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Countries that permitted Chinese exports too quickly and without a plan, “saw their factories and their jobs vanish,” Farley said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

In 2021, when Talon won his second and last term permitted under the constitution, he kept Wadagni at the finance ministry, promoting him to minister of state.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

It was whether federal courts, hemmed in by the modern law of habeas corpus, are permitted to say anything meaningful about that possibility at all.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

Jackson rose to thank Ames and his northern colleagues for seeing the light and recovering the old conciliatory spirit that had once permitted northern and southern interests to cooperate.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Related Words

• acceptable
• allowable
• allowed
• approved
• authorized
• licensed
• sanctioned