permission

Borrowed from Middle French permission, from Latin permissio.

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

• Audio (GA)

  (file)

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

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.

• prohibition

• permit

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.

• clearance

• File system permissions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• impression

Borrowed from Latin permissiō, permissiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

permission f (plural permissions)

1. permission

• permettre

• “permission” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).