permission

Alternative forms

• permistion, permixtion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /pəˈmɪʃən/
• (General American) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /pɚˈmɪʃən/

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation: per‧mis‧sion

Noun

permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions)

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.

Verb

permission (third-person singular simple present permissions, present participle permissioning, simple past and past participle permissioned)

1. (transitive) To grant or obtain authorization for.
   • 2003, Mary Ellen Lepionka, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook‎, page 190:

     Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.

See also

• clearance

Further reading

• File system permissions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• impression

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin permissiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

permission f (plural permissions)

1. permission
2. military leave

   Ces soldats sont en permission, s’en vont en permission, reviennent de permission.

Further reading

• “permission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.