Usually means: Authorization granted to do something.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word permission:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. permission: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. permission: Merriam-Webster
  3. permission: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. permission: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. permission: Collins English Dictionary
  6. permission: Vocabulary.com
  7. Permission, permission: Wordnik
  8. permission: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. permission: Wiktionary
  10. permission: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. permission: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. permission: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Permission, permission: Dictionary.com
  14. permission: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. permission: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Permission (film), Permission (magazine), Permission (philosophy), Permission: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Permission: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. permission: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. permission: Rhymezone
  20. Permission, permission (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. permission: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. permission: FreeDictionary.org
  23. permission: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. permission: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. permission: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. permission: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. permission: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. permission: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. permission: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. permission: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Permission: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See permissioning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
noun:  The act of permitting.
noun:  (computing) Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
verb:  (transitive) To grant or obtain authorization for.

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