Usually means: Official authorization to do something.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word permit:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. permit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. permit, permit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. permit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. permit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. permit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Permit, permit: Wordnik
  7. permit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. permit: Wiktionary
  9. permit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. permit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. permit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. permit: Dictionary.com
  13. permit (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. permit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Permit (fish), Permit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Permit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. permit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. permit: Rhymezone
  19. Permit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. permit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. permit: Free Dictionary
  22. permit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. permit: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. permit: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. permit: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. permit: Legal dictionary
  8. permit: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Permit (fish), permit: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PERMIT: Acronym Finder
  3. permit: Idioms

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Permit: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Permit: Construction Glossary

(Note: See permiting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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