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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- permistion, permixtion (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA(key): /pəˈmɪʃən/
- (General American) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA(key): /pɚˈmɪʃən/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪʃən
- Hyphenation: per‧mis‧sion
Noun[edit]
permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions)
- authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
- Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
- The act of permitting.
- (computing) Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
- I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.
Antonyms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
authorisation
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act of permitting
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in computing
Verb[edit]
permission (third-person singular simple present permissions, present participle permissioning, simple past and past participle permissioned)
- (transitive) To grant or obtain authorization for.
- 2003, Mary Ellen Lepionka, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook[1], page 190:
- Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
File system permissions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin permissiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
permission f (plural permissions)
- permission
- military leave
- Ces soldats sont en permission, s’en vont en permission, reviennent de permission.
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “permission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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