permission

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French permission, from Latin permissio.

PronunciationEdit

• (General American) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /pɚˈmɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /pəˈmɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

NounEdit

permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions)

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

   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.

AntonymsEdit

• prohibition

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• permissible
• permissioning

• permissive
• planning permission

Related termsEdit

• permit

TranslationsEdit

authorisation

• Arabic: تَصْرِيح‎‎ m (taṣrīḥ), سَمَاح‎‎ m (samāḥ), إِجَازَة‎‎ f (ʾijāza)
• Armenian: թույլտվություն (hy) (tʿuyltvutʿyun)
• Bashkir: рөхсәт (röxsät)
• Bulgarian: разреше́ние (bg) n (razrešénie), позволе́ние (bg) n (pozvolénie)
• Catalan: permís (ca) m, autorització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 許可 (zh), 许可 (zh) (xǔkě), 授權 (zh) (shòuquán), 授权 (zh) (shòuquán), 允許 (zh) (yúnxǚ), 允许 (zh) (yúnxǚ)

• Czech: povolení (cs) n
• Danish: tilladelse (da) c
• Dutch: toestemming (nl) f, toelating (nl) f
• Esperanto: permeso (eo)
• Faroese: loyvi n
• Finnish: oikeus (fi), lupa (fi)
• French: permission (fr) f
• Georgian: ნებართვა (nebartva)
• German: Erlaubnis (de) f
• Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia), έγκριση (el) f (égkrisi)
• Hindi: अनुमति (hi) f (anumati)
• Hungarian: engedély (hu)
• Ido: darfo (io)

• Indonesian: izin (id), keizinan (id), perkenan (id), permisi (id)
• Italian: permesso (it) m
• Japanese: 許可 (ja) (きょか, kyoka)
• Korean: 허가 (ko) (heoga) (許可 (ko))
• Malay: kebenaran, izin, keizinan, perkenan
• Ngazidja Comorian: idhini class 9
• Norwegian: tillatelse (no) m
• Persian: اجازه‎‎ (fa) (ejâze)
• Portuguese: permissão (pt) f
• Romanian: permisiune (ro) f
• Russian: разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije), позволе́ние (ru) n (pozvolénije)
• Slovene: dovoljênje (sl) n
• Spanish: permiso (es) m
• Swahili: idhini (sw)
• Swedish: tillåtelse (sv) c, tillstånd (sv) n, medgivande (sv) c
• Telugu: అనుమతి (te) (anumati)
• Turkish: izin (tr), müsaade (tr)
• Ukrainian: дозвіл (uk) n (dozvil)
• Urdu: اجازت‎‎ (ur) f (ijaazat)

act of permitting

• Armenian: թույլտվություն (hy) (tʿuyltvutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: позволе́ние (bg) n (pozvolénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 授權 (zh) (shòuquán), 授权 (zh) (shòuquán), 允許 (zh) (yúnxǚ), 允许 (zh) (yúnxǚ)

• Finnish: lupa (fi)
• Georgian: ნებართვის მიცემა (nebartvis micema)
• Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia)
• Italian: permesso (it)
• Japanese: 許可 (ja) (きょか, kyoka)
• Malayalam: അനുവാദം (ml) (anuvādaṃ)

• Portuguese: permissão (pt) f
• Romanian: permitere (ro) f
• Russian: разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije)
• Slovene: dovoljênje (sl) n
• Swahili: idhini (sw)
• Swedish: tillåtelse (sv)
• Telugu: అనుమతి (te) (anumati)
• Turkish: izin (tr), müsaade (tr)

in computing

• Finnish: oikeudet (fi), käyttöoikeudet
• Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia)
• Portuguese: permissão (pt) f

• Spanish: permiso (es) m
• Swedish: rättigheter (sv)

VerbEdit

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.

See alsoEdit

• clearance

ReferencesEdit

• File system permissions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

AnagramsEdit

• impression

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

permission f (plural permissions)

1. permission