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building permit

American  

noun

  1. an official certificate of permission issued by local authorities to a builder to construct, enlarge, or alter a building.


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On April 29, the first building permit is issued for preparatory work on the site.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

The presence of ammonia near the site could lead to the annulment of the building permit, he added.

From BBC May 27, 2026

The foundations are for a hotel extension that attracted so much controversy last year that the country's top administrative court ended up temporarily blocking its building permit.

From Barron's Feb. 12, 2026

On Holdorff Polhill’s block of Iliff Street, the rebuilding process was underway for nine out of 27 destroyed homes as of early December, according to a Times analysis of Los Angeles city building permit records.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

And finally now, just when he’d mastered the parking patterns at City Hall — he even knew which meters were jammed, so he could park free — he had his building permit.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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