permission

• permistion, permixtion (obsolete)

From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Equivalent to permit +‎ -ion. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈmɪʃ.ən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pəɹˈmɪʃ.ən/

  • Audio (General American):

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈpər.mɪ.ʃən/, (non-rhotic) [pɜː-]
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation: per‧mis‧sion

permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions)

1. authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)

   Synonyms: allowance, license, permit; see also Thesaurus:permission

   Antonym: prohibition

   Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?

2. The act of permitting.
3. (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.

• permit

permission (third-person singular simple present permissions, present participle permissioning, simple past and past participle permissioned)

1. (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.

• clearance

• File system permissions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• impression

Borrowed from Latin permissiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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permission f (plural permissions)

1. permission
2. military leave

   Ces soldats sont en permission, s’en vont en permission, reviennent de permission.

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• permettre

• “permission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

permission c

1. leave, furlough (from military service, prison, involuntary care, or the like)

   Synonym: (colloquial) permis

   få permission

   be granted leave

• bondpermission

• permittera

• permission in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• permission in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• permission in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)