permitted

[per-mit-id]

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.

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• permittedly adverb
• nonpermitted adjective
• unpermitted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of permitted¹

permit ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Asylum seekers are not generally permitted to work while their claims are being processed and get an allowance of £1.42 a day to live on.

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Many people helped by Dignitas are those who have travelled to Switzerland because assisted dying is not permitted in their own countries.

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Vaccination of livestock against the disease has been permitted since the summer, with vets warning then that an outbreak seemed inevitable.

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Troops were initially unarmed when they were sent to Washington and also weren’t permitted to have weapons in their vehicles.

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In 44.3% of the samples, barium levels surpassed the permitted limit, reaching concentrations up to 15 times higher than allowed.

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Related Words

• acceptable 
• allowable 
• allowed 
• approved www.thesaurus.com
• authorized 
• licensed www.thesaurus.com
• sanctioned