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What is the verb for permission?

What's the verb for permission? Here's the word you're looking for.

permit
  1. (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone). [from 15th c.]
  2. (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. [from 15th c.]
  3. (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to. [from 15th c.]
  4. (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible. [from 16th c.]
  5. (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of). [from 18th c.]
  6. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
  7. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for (something).
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  9. Examples:
    1. “The police would not permit anybody to park their live trucks right in front of the house.”
      “It is with the greatest sorrow that I inform you that I can no longer permit myself to be involved in, or associated with, Project Pharos.”
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