permission

[ per-mish-uhn ]

/ pərˈmɪʃ ən /

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noun

authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.

Words nearby permission

permian, permic, permie, permillage, permissible, permission, permissive, permissivism, permit, permittivity, permonosulfuric acid

Origin of permission

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin permissiōn- (stem of permissiō) a yielding, giving leave, equivalent to permiss(us) (past participle of permittere to permit¹) + -iōn- -ion

SYNONYMS FOR permission

1 leave, sanction.

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ANTONYMS FOR permission

1 restraint, refusal.

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OTHER WORDS FROM permission

per·mis·sioned, adjectiveper·mis·so·ry

[per-mis-uh-ree] /pərˈmɪs ə ri/, adjectivenon·per·mis·sion, nounself-per·mis·sion, noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH permission

acquiescence permission

Examples from the Web for permission

The pilot asked air-traffic control for permission to climb from 32,000 to 38,000 feet to avoid the bad weather.
Wreckage, Bodies of AirAsia Crash Found|Lennox Samuels|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Reprinted by permission of Kingswell/Disney Publishing Worldwide.
Carla Hall’s Christmas Day Treat: Rum Balls|Carla Hall|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Excerpted from Moneyball for Government, published by Disruption Books, and reprinted with permission.
Can the U.S. Government Go Moneyball?|Peter Orszag, Jim Nussle|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Excerpted with the permission of the publisher, Rowman & Littlefield.
A West Point MVP Who Never Played a Down|Nicolaus Mills|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

He wrote about their time together for the April 1982 issue of Esquire (and the piece appears here with the author's permission).
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And I have your permission to consider myself as engaged to her?
The Small House at Allington|Anthony Trollope
She instantly comprehended his permission and threw herself into her lover's embrace.
Monte-Cristo's Daughter|Edmund Flagg
With Father Richeome's and even Bayle's permission, that is not at all the position of the matter.
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary|Voltaire
All they asked for was individual liberty and permission to pray to the God of their choice.
The Cathedrals of Northern Spain|Charles Rudy
Hendricks, upon receiving my permission, sprang to one of the two ports in the navigating room and unshuttered it.
Vampires of Space|Sewell Peaslee Wright

British Dictionary definitions for permission

permission

/ (pəˈmɪʃən) /

noun

authorization to do something

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