Definitions for permission
pərˈmɪʃ ənper·mis·sion

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. permission(noun)

   approval to do something

   "he asked permission to leave"

2. license, permission, permit(noun)

   the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

Wiktionary(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. permission(Noun)

   authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)

   Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?

   Etymology: From permitten, from permettre, from permittere.

2. permission(Noun)

   The act of permitting

   Etymology: From permitten, from permettre, from permittere.

3. permission(Noun)

   flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.

   I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.

   Etymology: From permitten, from permettre, from permittere.

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Permission(noun)

   the act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted

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1. Permission

   Permission, in philosophy, is the attribute of a person whose performance of a specific action, otherwise ethically wrong or dubious, would thereby involve no ethical fault. The term "permission" is more commonly used to refer to consent. Consent is the legal embodiment of the concept, in which approval is given to another party. Permissions depend on norms or institutions. Many permissions and obligations are complementary to each other, and deontic logic is a tool sometimes used in reasoning about such relationships.

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1. permission

   Authorization to do.

   They gave their permission to bring their wedding day forward as they wanted to get married and then try for a baby as soon as possible.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 15, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'permission' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3165

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'permission' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2746

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'permission' in Nouns Frequency: #1281

Anagrams for permission »

1. impression

How to pronounce permission?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say permission in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of permission in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of permission in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of permission in a Sentence

1. Haji Janan:

   They have given us permission to harvest our fields this year because of our hardship.

2. But Stratton:

   It was very difficult for him to ask his father permission to leave [the lifestyle], his father wasn’t happy about it. In the tape, you can see his father basically ripping through Junior. ‘Where’s your dignity? Where’s your manhood?’ But then he changes at a certain point. He becomes a father, instead of the godfather and the boss of the Gambino family. He understand that the life he led can go one or two ways. You die in prison or you die on the street.

3. Photographer Valerio Bispuri:

   They told me up front: If you want to go there, you have to get permission from the Red Command, a viciously dangerous drug gang that has ruled parts of the city, most prisons have a social organization, like a pyramid style.

4. US Marine Proverb:

   It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

5. Dmitry Peskov:

   Certainly, we welcome the main decision which allows so-called clean athletes to take part in the Olympic Games, given the permission of international (sports) federations.

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