Usually means: Refuse to permit or accept.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word disallow:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. disallow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. disallow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disallow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disallow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disallow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disallow, disallow: Wordnik
  7. disallow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disallow: Wiktionary
  9. disallow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disallow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disallow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. disallow: Dictionary.com
  13. Disallow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Disallow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. disallow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. disallow: Rhymezone
  17. disallow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. disallow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. disallow: Free Dictionary
  20. disallow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. disallow: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. disallow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disallow: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disallow: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See disallowance as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To refuse to allow.
verb:  To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper.
verb:  (UK, law, historical) To overrule a colonial legislation by the sovereign-in-privy council.

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