Associations to the word «Permission»

Wiktionary

PERMISSION, noun. Authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
PERMISSION, noun. The act of permitting.
PERMISSION, noun. (computing) flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.

Dictionary definition

PERMISSION, noun. Approval to do something; "he asked permission to leave".
PERMISSION, noun. The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne