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permitted
[ per-mit-id ]
adjective
- allowed or tolerated:
One lettuce contained a gene-mutating compound at over sixty times the permitted level.
- given permission to do something; authorized:
Some of the user-uploaded data should only be accessible to a permitted group of users.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of permit 1( def ).
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Other Words From
- per·mit·ted·ly adverb
- non·per·mit·ted adjective
- un·per·mit·ted adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of permitted1
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Example Sentences
The only physician she was permitted to see was the jail doctor.
But since the government has now permitted the River God to leave the U.K., that excuse can no longer wash.
Assuming that members of Congress who live in D.C. are adults, they, too, will be permitted to get stoned at their leisure.
She said she wrote the letter because the president is not permitted direct contact with soldiers.
Such an abattoir would never be permitted to continue in the United States, or indeed the developed (and white) world.
In most club card-rooms smoking is not permitted, but at the Pandemonium it is the fashion to smoke everywhere.
But there is a pinnacle of human success and of human opinion, on which human foot was never yet permitted to rest.
This unreasoning, feminine obstinacy so wrought upon him that he permitted himself a smile and a lapse into irony and banter.
They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.
Once he permitted himself a digression, that he might point a moral for the benefit of his servant.
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