Usually means: Official documents allowing specific actions.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word permits:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. permits: Merriam-Webster
  2. permits: Collins English Dictionary
  3. permits: Vocabulary.com
  4. Permits, permit's, permits: Wordnik
  5. permits: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. permits: Wiktionary
  7. permits: Dictionary.com
  8. permits: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. permits: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. permits: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. permits: Legal dictionary
  3. permits: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. permits: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. permits: Idioms

(Note: See permit as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (permit)

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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