permitted
Americanadjective
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allowed or tolerated.
One lettuce contained a gene-mutating compound at over sixty times the permitted level.
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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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Not permitted to care for bald eagles, the San Dimas team moved her to the Ojai facility later that day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The Department for Transport said it was "giving councils stronger powers to tackle dangerous and inconsiderate pavement parking" - but on roads like Fordhouse Lane in Birmingham parking on the pavement is permitted.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
It was that everyone watching knew he had not been permitted to have a position of his own.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
"This is because the authorities were not permitted to conduct autopsies on the bodies of the deceased, and therefore lacked the forensic evidence necessary to determine the cause of death," it said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 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
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