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Definition of Permit
Permit

A large pompano (Trachinotus goodei) of the West Indies, Florida, etc. It becomes about three feet long.

The round pompano. (T. falcatus).

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

To grant (one) express license or liberty to do an act; to authorize; to give leave; -- followed by an infinitive.

To give over; to resign; to leave; to commit.

To grant permission; to allow.

Warrant; license; leave; permission; specifically, a written license or permission given to a person or persons having authority; as, a permit to land goods subject to duty.

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Permit Quotations

Science does not permit exceptions.
Claude Bernard

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Permit Translations

permit in Danish is tillade
permit in Dutch is gedogen, toestaan, toelaten
permit in Finnish is sallia
permit in French is permettre, permets, permettons, permettez, permis
permit in German is Erlaubnisschein, zulassen, zulassen, erlauben
permit in Italian is permettere, permettere, nullaosta, modulo
permit in Latin is sino, licentio, patior
permit in Spanish is permitir, aprobacion, consentir, halo


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