Permitting - English meaning

Permitting – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Officially allow (someone) to do something.
Usage examples:
The law permits councils to monitor any factory emitting smoke
Synonims:
Allow Let Authorize Sanction Grant Grant someone the right License Empower Enable Entitle Qualify Consent to Assent to Give one's consent/assent to Give one's blessing to Give someone/somethi

noun
An official document giving someone authorization to do something.
Usage examples:
He is only in britain on a work permit

noun
A deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western atlantic and caribbean and caught for food and sport.
Usage examples:
He told me that there were snook and tarpon (as i already knew) and there were large bonefish and p…

adjective
Used to show that an activity depends on an uncertain condition
Usage examples:
Weather permitting (= if the weather is good enough), the picnic will be next saturday.

Permitting translation into English

Permitting: translate from English into Chinese

允许

Permitting: translate from English into Dutch

Toelaten

Permitting: translate from English into French

Permettant

Permitting: translate from English into German

Erlauben

Permitting: translate from English into Hindi

की अनुमति

Permitting: translate from English into Italian

Permettendo

Permitting: translate from English into Korean

허락하다

Permitting: translate from English into Russian

Разрешающий, Позволяющий

Permitting: translate from English into Spanish

Permitiendo

Word origin

late Middle English (originally in the sense ‘commit, hand over’): from Latin permittere, from per- ‘through’ + mittere ‘send, let go’.

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Permitting – similar words

permitted

verb
Officially allow (someone) to do something.
Usage examples:
The law permits councils to monitor any factory emitting smoke

noun
An official document giving someone authorization to do something.
Usage examples:
He is only in britain on a work permit

noun
A deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western atlantic and caribbean and caught for food and sport.
Usage examples:
He told me that there were snook and tarpon (as i already knew) and there were large bonefish and p…

Permitted - all meanings in English

permits

verb
Officially allow (someone) to do something.
Usage examples:
The law permits councils to monitor any factory emitting smoke

noun
An official document giving someone authorization to do something.
Usage examples:
He is only in britain on a work permit

noun
A deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western atlantic and caribbean and caught for food and sport.
Usage examples:
He told me that there were snook and tarpon (as i already knew) and there were large bonefish and p…

Permits - all meanings in English

permit

verb
Officially allow (someone) to do something.
Usage examples:
The law permits councils to monitor any factory emitting smoke

noun
An official document giving someone authorization to do something.
Usage examples:
He is only in britain on a work permit

noun
A deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western atlantic and caribbean and caught for food and sport.
Usage examples:
He told me that there were snook and tarpon (as i already knew) and there were large bonefish and p…

Permit - all meanings in English

Permitting synonims

allow

verb
Let (someone) have or do something.
Usage examples:
The dissident was allowed to leave the country

verb
To let someone do something or let something happen; permit
Usage examples:
You’re not allowed to talk during the exam., are you allowed in the building on weekends?, video li…

verb
To make it possible for someone to do something, or to not prevent something from happening
Usage examples:
Allow sb/sth to do sth the website allows consumers to compare the prices of all energy and telepho…

Allow - all meanings in English

authorize

verb
Give official permission for or approval to (an undertaking or agent).
Usage examples:
The troops were authorized to use force

Authorize - all meanings in English

empower

verb
Give (someone) the authority or power to do something.
Usage examples:
Members are empowered to audit the accounts of limited companies

Empower - all meanings in English

enable

verb
Give (someone) the authority or means to do something; make it possible for.
Usage examples:
The evidence would enable us to arrive at firm conclusions

verb
To make someone or something able to do something by providing whatever is necessary to achieve that aim
Usage examples:
Saving enough money now will enable you to retire comfortably.

verb
To make someone or something able to do something, or to make something possible
Usage examples:
Enable sb/sth to do sth this software will enable us to track orders more efficiently., recent tech…

Enable - all meanings in English

entitle

verb
Give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something.
Usage examples:
Employees are normally entitled to redundancy pay

verb
To give someone the right to do or have something
Usage examples:
He’s entitled to his opinion even if you don’t agree with him., being over 65 entitles you to a dis…

verb
To give someone the right to do or have something
Usage examples:
Entitle sb to (do) sth the chief executive will face protest at the agm over his contract, which co…

Entitle - all meanings in English

grant

verb
Agree to give or allow (something requested) to.
Usage examples:
They were granted a meeting

noun
A sum of money given by a government or other organization for a particular purpose.
Usage examples:
A research grant

verb
To give, agree to give, or do something that another person has asked for, esp. as an official or formal act
Usage examples:
She was granted american citizenship., [ + (that) clause ] i grant you (that) it must have been ups…

Grant - all meanings in English

let

verb
Not prevent or forbid; allow.
Usage examples:
My boss let me leave early

noun
A period during which a room or property is rented.
Usage examples:
I've taken a month's let on the flat

verb
Hinder.
Usage examples:
Pray you let us not; we fain would greet our mother

Let - all meanings in English

license

verb
Grant a licence to.
Usage examples:
A pub has to be licensed by the local justices

noun
A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (especially in alcoholic drink).
Usage examples:
A gun licence

noun
An official document that gives you permission to own, do, or use something
Usage examples:
A fishing/export/driver’s license, poetic/artistic license, she’s licensed to teach elementary scho…

License - all meanings in English

qualify

verb
Be entitled to a particular benefit or privilege by fulfilling a necessary condition.
Usage examples:
A pensioner who does not qualify for income support

verb
To achieve or have the standard of skill, knowledge, or ability that is necessary for doing or being something, or to cause someone to reach that standard
Usage examples:
[ + to infinitive ] she was qualified to teach high school mathematics and physics., [ i ] derrick …

verb
To successfully finish a course of study or training or achieve the necessary skills so that you are able to do a job
Usage examples:
There are many different branches of nursing which are available after qualifying., qualify as sth …

Qualify - all meanings in English

sanction

noun
A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.
Usage examples:
A range of sanctions aimed at deterring insider abuse

verb
Give official permission or approval for (an action).
Usage examples:
The scheme was sanctioned by the court

noun
Approval or permission
Usage examples:
To be just, a government must have the sanction of the governed., trade/economic sanctions, the un …

Sanction - all meanings in English

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