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

From Thursday, that deferral period will be cut to four years and partial payments will be allowed to start in the first year rather than in year three as previously permitted.

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He posted a list on X of what he called “press credentialing FOR DUMMIES: Press no longer roams free Press must wear visible badge Credentialed press no longer permitted to solicit criminal acts.”

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Under the terms of the suspension, the BBF will not be permitted to licence or recognise national men's competitions, or field a men's national team in Fiba senior competitions.

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Justice Department attorneys wrote that they “greatly regret any disruption caused to the Court and the other litigants,” but needed to pause the proceedings until they were “permitted to resume their usual civil litigation functions.”

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While it is permitted to publish tally sheets from individual polling stations, it is illegal to announce the overall result of the vote before the Constitutional Council.

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Related Words

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