permission
//pəˈmɪʃ.ən//
Forms
- Plural
- permissions
- present (v1)
- permission
- past (v2)
- permissioned
- past participle (v3)
- permissioned
- present participle
- permissioning
- 3rd person singular
- permissions
Definitions
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.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.
1.To grant or obtain authorization for.
- Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3177
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō.
Equivalent to permit + -ion.
Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).