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
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 second Red Bull of Isack Hadjar was fourth fastest, 0.252secs slower than Verstappen, as it emerged that he Frenchman will have a 10-place grid penalty for exceeding his permitted number of engines.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
He had kept mother and child in the hospital longer than permitted already because she had nowhere else to go.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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