admit

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/ ædˈmɪt /

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verb (used with object), ad·mit·ted, ad·mit·ting.

to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.

to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.

to register (a person) as an inpatient at a hospital: After seeing the test results, the emergency room doctor admitted her and put her on intravenous fluids.

to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.

to permit; allow.

to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.

to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.

to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.

to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.

verb (used without object), ad·mit·ted, ad·mit·ting.

to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.

to permit the possibility of something; allow (usually followed by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation.

OTHER WORDS FOR admit

1 receive.

7 own, avow.

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Origin of admit

1375–1425; <Latin admittere, equivalent to ad-ad- + mittere to send, let go; replacing late Middle English amitte, with a-a-⁵ (instead of ad-) <Middle French amettre<Latin, as above

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7. See acknowledge.

OTHER WORDS FROM admit

ad·mit·ta·ble, ad·mit·ti·ble, adjectivead·mit·ter, nounpre·ad·mit, verb (used with object), pre·ad·mit·ted, pre·ad·mit·ting.re·ad·mit, verb, re·ad·mit·ted, re·ad·mit·ting.

Words nearby admit

admirer, admiring, admissible, admission, admissive, admit, admittance, admitted, admittedly, admittee, admix

How to use admit in a sentence

It’s very difficult to do a comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of different climate projects, and experts freely admit they’re not 100 percent sure they’ve made the best recommendations.
Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money.|Sigal Samuel|September 17, 2020|Vox
It’s not encouraging that they’re essentially admitting they have no profitable places to invest the other 80% of their earnings.
Will tech stocks stumble or slide? What the fundamentals tell us|Shawn Tully|September 16, 2020|Fortune
In 2015, the automaker admitted that about 11 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide were fitted with devices that gave false readings during emissions tests.
Volkswagen is the latest carmaker to tap the red-hot green-bond market to fund its EV ambitions|Bernhard Warner|September 16, 2020|Fortune
In my household, it has led to more chaos than I would like to admit.
Malala Yousafzai puts the remote learning struggle in perspective|Michal Lev-Ram, writer|September 15, 2020|Fortune

Neil Carson, the CEO of rival data startup Yellowbrick, admits that Snowflake’s software is a “brilliant innovation.”
Meet Snowflake, one of the buzziest tech IPOs ever|Aaron Pressman|September 15, 2020|Fortune
President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to force Faubus to admit the students to Central High School.
The ‘No Child’ Rewrite Threatens Your Kids’ Future|Jonah Edelman|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The sad fact is that more than 41 percent of trans people admit making at least one suicide attempt in their lifetime.
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen|Parker Molloy|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Fulkerson sympathizes with March, and he gets Dryfoos to admit that he should not have spoke to March as he did.
The Novel That Foretold the TNR Meltdown|Nicolaus Mills|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I admit, I chuckled when I read the phrase “boomtown effects” in the New York report.
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The interval between possession and hell was short,” he says, “though I admit it was wonderful.
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The case should at such times be opened for a few hours each day to admit the drying air.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
However, the fires were stirred up, and things made as comfortable as circumstances would admit of.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
I am of opinion too, that the Indecency of the next Verse, you spill upon me, would admit of an equal Correction.
A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope|Colley Cibber
It is a fine marble, much too hard to admit of minute carving, but taking a high polish.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.

British Dictionary definitions for admit

admit

/ (ədˈmɪt) /

verb -mits, -mitting or -mitted (mainly tr)

(may take a clause as object) to confess or acknowledge (a crime, mistake, etc)

(may take a clause as object) to concede (the truth or validity of something)

to allow to enter; let in

(foll by to) to allow participation (in) or the right to be part (of)to admit to the profession

(when intr, foll by of) to allow (of); leave room (for)

(intr) to give accessthe door admits onto the lawn

Word Origin for admit

C14: from Latin admittere to let come or go to, from ad- to + mittere to send

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