Usually means: Allow or permit someone something.
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We found 62 dictionaries that define the word let:

General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. let: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. -let, let: Merriam-Webster
  3. -let, let, let: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. let, let: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -let, let: Collins English Dictionary
  6. LET, let: Vocabulary.com
  7. Let, Let, Let, Let, -let, let, let: Wordnik
  8. -let: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. let: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. let: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. LET, -let: Dictionary.com
  12. let (n.), let (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. let: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Let, -let: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Let, -let: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. let: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. let: Rhymezone
  18. let: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. let: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Let: Britih-American Dictionary
  21. -let, let: MyWord.info
  22. LET: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. let: FreeDictionary.org
  24. let: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. let: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. let: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. let: Wiktionary
  28. -let, let: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  29. -let: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  30. let: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  31. -let: Wiktionary
  32. Let: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. let: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. let: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. -let, let: Legal dictionary
  7. let: Financial dictionary
  8. let: Webster's New World Law Dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. LET: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LET: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. LET: Acronym Finder
  2. LET: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. let: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LET: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. let: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. let: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. L.E.T, let: Urban Dictionary

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Let: Tennis Glossary
  3. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  6. Let: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
verb:  (transitive) To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave alone.
verb:  (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
verb:  (transitive, chiefly British) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
verb:  (transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
verb:  (auxiliary, transitive) Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete except with know) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
noun:  The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
verb:  (archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
verb:  (obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
verb:  (obsolete) To tarry or delay.
noun:  An obstacle or hindrance.
noun:  (tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

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