permission

---

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA: /pəˈmɪʃən/
• (GA) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA: /pɚˈmɪʃən/

Noun

permission

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.

Antonyms

• prohibition

Related terms

• permit

Translations

• French: permission
• German: Erlaubnis, Gestattung, Genehmigung
• Italian: permesso
• Portuguese: permissão
• Russian: разреше́ние
• Spanish: permiso, venia, beneplácito

Translations

• Italian: permesso
• Portuguese: permissão
• Russian: разреше́ние

Translations

• Portuguese: permissão
• Spanish: permiso

Verb

permission (permissions, present participle permissioning; past and past participle permissioned)

1. (transitive) To grant or obtain authorization for.

---

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004