Look up: permission

1. permission
   (file system) (Or 'file mode') The ability to access (read, write, execute, traverse, etc.) a file or directory. Depending on the operating system, each file may have different permissions for different kinds of access and different users or groups of users. chmod ('change mode') is the UNIX command to change permissions. (2000-12-07)
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2. permission
   [n] - approval to do something
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3. permission
   a data entry mode allowing double entries to be introduced into a database Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • authorisation for the termination of employment granted by the Director of a district employment services authority. Also called 'interim testing ...
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4. Permission
   See leave
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5. Permission
   If an individual permits a certain thing to be done, it means that he gives his permission for it to be done and he knows what exactly is to be done or is being done. Therefore 'permission' connotes the authorisation to do something. It is effectively the right to refuse or to consent to a proposed ...
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6. Permission
   Per·mis'sion noun [ Latin permissio : confer French permission . See Permit .] The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. « High permission of all-ruling Heaven...
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7. permission
   noun approval to do something; `he asked permission to leave`
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8. Permission
   • (n.) The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.
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9. permission
   permission 1. The act of permitting someone to do something. 2. Consent, especially formal consent; authorization. The following nouns indicate approval for a course of action that is granted by someone in authority: He was refused permission to smoke anywhere in the building. They were seeking ...
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10. permission
    
    • approval to do something
    • the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
    
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11. permission
    a communication by telephone or by telegraph, or the control of an appropriate apparatus, carried out in order to authorize a given action
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12. Permission
    (philosophy) `Permission`, in philosophy, is the attribute of a person whose performance of a specific action, otherwise ethically wrong or dubious, would thereby involve no ethical fault. The term "permission" is more commonly used to refer to consent. `Consent` is the legal embodi...
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13. Permission
    (magazine) `Permission` was one of the largest gothic magazines of the 1990s. Begun in 1992 in Chicago by Jayson Elliot, the first issue appeared as a newsprint `zine, with a mix of articles about bands (such as Alien Sex Fiend and Young Gods), amateur poetry, disturbing comics (such a...
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