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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
permissive/pəˈmɪsɪv/

▶adjective

1 allowing or characterized by freedom of behaviour.

2 Law allowed but not obligatory; optional.
■ denoting a path available for public use by the landowner's consent, not as a legal right of way.

– derivatives
permissively adverb,
permissiveness noun.

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