# admission

Pronunciation: say "ad-MISH-uhn" /ædˈmɪʃ.ən/

## Noun

1. Permission to enter a place, or the act or fact of entering; admittance or access.
   - Simple: Permission to go into a place, or the act of going in.
   - _Admission to the gallery's evening events is restricted to invited guests._
   - _Foreign journalists were denied admission to the briefing._
2. The cost or fee charged for entry to or attendance at an event or place.
   - Simple: The money you pay to get into a place like a movie or museum.
   - _The museum waived admission for veterans during the holiday weekend._
   - _Rising admission prices kept many families away from the ballpark._
3. The granting of a point or argument not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; a concession.
   - Simple: The act of agreeing that something is true, even when you would rather not.
   - _His admission that the data were incomplete weakened the committee's confidence in the report._
   - _Accepting her rival's main premise felt like an admission of defeat._
4. The act or practice of admitting; the granting of entry or acceptance.
   - Simple: The act of letting someone or something into a place or group.
   - _Her admission to the hospital took less than an hour._
   - _The country's admission to the trade organization required years of negotiation._
5. A fact, point, or statement that has been admitted or acknowledged as true.
   - Simple: A statement in which someone accepts that something is true.
   - _The letter contained a damaging admission about the company's finances._
   - _Jurors weighed his offhand admission against his later denials._
6. Acquiescence in or agreement with a statement made by another person; distinguished from a confession, which may be made without any prior inquiry.
   - Simple: The act of agreeing that what someone else says is true, usually after they ask you about it.
   - _Under the detective's questioning, his admission confirmed the timeline of events._
   - _The plaintiff's lawyer read the defendant's admission into the record during the deposition._
7. A bishop's declaration approving a presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he or she is presented. *(British)*
   - Simple: A bishop's official statement that a person is fit to serve as priest of a church.
   - _The vicar took up his duties only after admission by the bishop of the diocese._
   - _Following admission, the new rector was instituted and inducted into the parish._

## Origin

Borrowed from Latin admissio (admissionis), related to the verb admit; compare French admission.

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