permission
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)
- approval to do something“he asked permission to leave”Type of approval, commendationKinds consent, authority, pass, leave, all clear, green light, dismissal
- the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorizationSynonyms: licensepermitType of authorization, authorisationKinds dispensation, conge, clearance, allowance, toleration
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Translations
Noun authorisation, consent
- Spanish
- permiso
- French
- permission
- German
- Erlaubnis
- Italian
- permesso
- Portuguese
- permissão
- Turkish
- izin
- Russian
- разреше́ние razrešénije
- Arabic
- إِذْن ʔiḏn
- Chinese
- 许可 xǔkě
- Japanese
- 許可 kyoka
24 more languages
- Dutch
- permissie
- Polish
- pozwolenie
- Swedish
- tillåtelse
- Greek
- άδεια ádeia
- Korean
- 허가 heoga
- Indonesian
- izin
- Hungarian
- engedély
- Portuguese (PT)
- permissão
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 許可 xǔkě
- Albanian
- leje
- Catalan
- permís
- Czech
- povolení
- Danish
- lov
- Esperanto
- permeso
- Estonian
- luba
- Finnish
- lupa
- Georgian
- ნებართვა nebartva
- Icelandic
- leyfi
- Kurdish
- izin
- Norwegian
- tillatelse
- Romanian
- permisiune
- Slovak
- povolenie
- Swahili
- idhini
- Welsh
- caniatâd
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. permissio: cf. F. permission. See Permit.
The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.
High permission of all-ruling Heaven.— John Milton
You have given me your permission for this address.— John Dryden
Synonyms: Leave; liberty; license. — Leave, Permission. Leave implies that the recipient may decide whether to use the license granted or not. Permission is the absence on the part of another of anything preventive, and in general, at least by implication, signifies approval.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<file system> (Or "file mode") The ability to access (read, write, execute, traverse, etc.) a file or directory. Depending on the operating system, each file may have different permissions for different kinds of access and different users or groups of users.
chmod ("change mode") is the UNIX command to change permissions.
(2000-12-07)