permission

1. 1

   authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)countableuncountable

   • Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
2. 2

   The act of permitting.countableuncountable

3. 3

   Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.countableuncountable

   • I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.

syn. allowance · authority · authorization · clearance · consent · leave · license · mandate · permission · permit · warrant

ant. ban · forbiddance · prohibition · sanction

1. 1

   To grant or obtain authorization for.transitive

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