permit

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permit1

▶verb /pəˈmɪt/ (permits, permitting, permitted)

• 1 give permission to (someone) or for (something); allow.

• 2 make possible.

• 3 (permit of) formal allow for; admit of.

▶noun /ˈpəːmɪt/ an official document giving permission to do something.

– derivatives
permittee noun,
permitter noun.

– origin ME: from L. permittere, from per- ‘through’ + mittere ‘send, let go’.

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permit2 /ˈpəːmɪt/

▶noun a deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western Atlantic and Caribbean and caught for food and sport. [Trachinotus falcatus.]

– origin alt. of Sp. palometa ‘little dove’.