Definitions for allowed
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1. Allowed

   of Allow

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1. allowedverb

   Verb form of the word allow.

   They were allowed to enter the office early in the morning and come out early afternoon as long as they completed their work they had the freedom to do this.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 7, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'allowed' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #686

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'allowed' in Written Corpus Frequency: #786

How to pronounce allowed?

1. Alex

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How to say allowed in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of allowed in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of allowed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of allowed in a Sentence

1. Julia Margaret Cameron:

   When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

2. Juan Espino:

   He told me he was told by the bus driver that it was not allowed to speak in Spanish while riding the bus.

3. Scott Applewhite -RRB- SCHUMER:

   If Senate Republicans are going to oppose it, they should not be allowed to sit in their office, they got to come down on the floor and defend their opposition to voting rights.

4. Patrick Waldron:

   Today crews are working to remove the final few derailed cars from the right of way and proceed with repairs to the track, due to the bitter cold conditions and isolated location, safety and firefighting experts have allowed the remaining controlled fire at the core of the derailment to burn.

5. Paul Callan:

   Even good defamation cases are hard to win in court, because of the discovery involved and proving actual damages. But this case, I think, is going to be extraordinarily difficult, the defense will be that this is simply an expression of opinion by the President, which he's allowed to express, and that is considered non-defamatory under defamation law.

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