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. Related Definitions: About, Act, Allow, An, As, Authority, Authorize, Be, By, Commit, Consent, Do, Done, Duty, Express, Feet, Followed, Give, Given, Goods, Grant, Having, Indies, Infinitive, It, Land, Large, Leave, Liberty, License, Long, Of, One, Or, Over, Permission, Permit, Person, Pompano, Put, Resign, Round, Specifically, Subject, Suffer, The, Three, To, Tolerate, Up, Warrant, West, With, Written

Permit Quotations Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. Mother Teresa The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. Mohandas Gandhi We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. John F. Kennedy There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. Friedrich Nietzsche Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. Pablo Picasso Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. Aristotle Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. James Madison I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. Saint Teresa of Avila

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