Usually means: Official authorization to do something.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word permit:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. permit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. permit: Merriam-Webster
  3. permit, permit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. permit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. permit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. permit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Permit, permit: Wordnik
  8. permit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. permit: Wiktionary
  10. permit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. permit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. permit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. permit: Dictionary.com
  14. permit (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. permit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Permit (fish), Permit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Permit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. permit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. permit: Rhymezone
  20. Permit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. permit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. permit: FreeDictionary.org
  23. permit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. permit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. permit: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. permit: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. permit: Legal dictionary
  9. permit: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Permit (fish), permit: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PERMIT: Acronym Finder
  3. permit: Idioms

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Permit: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Permit: Construction Glossary

(Note: See permiting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
verb:  (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.
verb:  (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible.
verb:  (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of).
verb:  (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
verb:  (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for (something).
verb:  (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
noun:  An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
noun:  A learner's permit.
noun:  (obsolete) Formal permission.
noun:  A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.

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