permitted

American  

[per-mit-id] / pərˈmɪt ɪd /

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.

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verb

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

Other Word Forms

• nonpermitted adjective
• permittedly adverb
• unpermitted adjective

Etymology

Origin of permitted

permit ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Previously only Class B and Class D taxis - mostly London-style black cabs and wheelchair-accessible vehicles - were permitted to use the bus lanes.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

All three are permitted to serve their time through a weekend jail program.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

In 2021, when Talon won his second and last term permitted under the constitution, he kept Wadagni at the finance ministry, promoting him to minister of state.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Such disputes mostly happen on Polymarket, whose unregulated offshore platform offers war bets that aren’t permitted on Kalshi or other U.S. platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The public was permitted to walk through until Friday at noon, and about 100,000 people filed by Garfield's body.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Related Words

• acceptable
• allowable
• allowed
• approved
• authorized
• licensed
• sanctioned