Usually means: Tolerated but not officially approved.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. sufferance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sufferance: Merriam-Webster
  3. sufferance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sufferance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sufferance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sufferance: Wordnik
  7. sufferance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sufferance: Wiktionary
  9. sufferance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sufferance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sufferance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sufferance: Dictionary.com
  13. Sufferance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. sufferance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. sufferance: Rhymezone
  16. Sufferance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sufferance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. sufferance: FreeDictionary.org
  19. sufferance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sufferance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. sufferance: Vocabulary.com

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

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sufferance: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sufferance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. sufferance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sufferance: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sufferance: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sufferance)

noun:  (archaic) Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.
noun:  Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction.
noun:  (archaic) Suffering; pain, misery.
noun:  (obsolete) Loss; damage; injury.
noun:  (British, historical) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.

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