# permission

Pronunciation: US say "pur-MISH-uhn" /pɚˈmɪʃən/; UK say "puh-MISH-uhn" /pəˈmɪʃən/

## Noun

1. Formal consent or authorization, especially from someone in a position of authority.
   - Simple: Official agreement that lets you do something, given by a person in charge.
   - _The reporter sought permission to enter the restricted area._
   - _Building work cannot begin without written permission from the city council._
2. The act of allowing someone to do something, or of allowing something to take place.
   - Simple: The act of letting someone do something, or letting something happen.
   - _In this office, permission means a manager initialing the bottom of the request form._
   - _Critics blamed the crisis on the regulators' habit of easy permission instead of careful review._
3. Settings or access rules attached to a computer file that determine who can use it and in what ways.
   - Simple: Settings on a computer file that control who can open or change it.
   - _The administrator adjusted the permission on the shared folder to block edits._
   - _Without the correct permission, the script cannot write to the directory._

## Verb

4. To grant or obtain official authorization for an action or request.
   - Simple: To officially allow something, or to get the right to do it.
   - _The bank needs to permission every transaction above a set limit._
   - _Administrators permission new devices before connecting them to the network._

## Origin

This word entered English via Middle English 'permision' and Middle French 'permission', from Latin 'permissiō'. It is equivalent to 'permit' plus '-ion', and it mostly replaced the native English word 'leave', from Old English 'lēaf' meaning permission.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/permission (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).