permission
authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
Example
“Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?”
Other meanings
The act of permitting.
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.”
Synonyms
- license
- permit
Related words
- nonpermission
- permissionless
- permissible
- permissioning
- permissive
- permission slip
- permission structure
- planning permission
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "permissiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “permission” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.