admission
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Latin admissio; compare French admission. See admit.
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admission (plural admissions)
- The act or practice of admitting.
- Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
- The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgment; concession.
- (law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
- A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
- (British, ecclesiastical law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
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The act or practice of admitting
[edit] External links
- admission in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- admission in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] French
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- IPA: /ad.mi.sjɔ̃/
- Homophones: admissions
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admission f. (plural admissions)
- Admission (act of admitting; state of being admitted).
