admit
to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
to register (a person) as an inpatient at a hospital: After seeing the test results, the emergency room doctor admitted her and put her on intravenous fluids.
to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
to permit; allow.
to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.
to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.
to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.
to permit the possibility of something; allow (usually followed by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation.
Origin of admit
1synonym study For admit
Other words for admit
Other words from admit
- ad·mit·ta·ble, ad·mit·ti·ble, adjective
- ad·mit·ter, noun
- pre·ad·mit, verb (used with object), pre·ad·mit·ted, pre·ad·mit·ting.
- re·ad·mit, verb, re·ad·mit·ted, re·ad·mit·ting.
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How to use admit in a sentence
It’s very difficult to do a comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of different climate projects, and experts freely admit they’re not 100 percent sure they’ve made the best recommendations.
Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money. | Sigal Samuel | September 17, 2020 | VoxIt’s not encouraging that they’re essentially admitting they have no profitable places to invest the other 80% of their earnings.
Will tech stocks stumble or slide? What the fundamentals tell us | Shawn Tully | September 16, 2020 | FortuneIn 2015, the automaker admitted that about 11 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide were fitted with devices that gave false readings during emissions tests.
Volkswagen is the latest carmaker to tap the red-hot green-bond market to fund its EV ambitions | Bernhard Warner | September 16, 2020 | FortuneIn my household, it has led to more chaos than I would like to admit.
Malala Yousafzai puts the remote learning struggle in perspective | Michal Lev-Ram, writer | September 15, 2020 | FortuneNeil Carson, the CEO of rival data startup Yellowbrick, admits that Snowflake’s software is a “brilliant innovation.”
President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to force Faubus to admit the students to Central High School.
The ‘No Child’ Rewrite Threatens Your Kids’ Future | Jonah Edelman | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe sad fact is that more than 41 percent of trans people admit making at least one suicide attempt in their lifetime.
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen | Parker Molloy | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTFulkerson sympathizes with March, and he gets Dryfoos to admit that he should not have spoke to March as he did.
I admit, I chuckled when I read the phrase “boomtown effects” in the New York report.
The interval between possession and hell was short,” he says, “though I admit it was wonderful.
We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsThe case should at such times be opened for a few hours each day to admit the drying air.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinHowever, the fires were stirred up, and things made as comfortable as circumstances would admit of.
Hunting the Lions | R.M. BallantyneI am of opinion too, that the Indecency of the next Verse, you spill upon me, would admit of an equal Correction.
A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope | Colley CibberIt is a fine marble, much too hard to admit of minute carving, but taking a high polish.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.
British Dictionary definitions for admit
/ (ədˈmɪt) /
(may take a clause as object) to confess or acknowledge (a crime, mistake, etc)
(may take a clause as object) to concede (the truth or validity of something)
to allow to enter; let in
(foll by to) to allow participation (in) or the right to be part (of): to admit to the profession
(when intr, foll by of) to allow (of); leave room (for)
(intr) to give access: the door admits onto the lawn
Origin of admit
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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