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permissions

permissions is the plural of permission.

Meaning of permission

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?
    Antonyms:
    prohibition
  2. The act of permitting.
  3. 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.

See all 4 meanings of permission

Phrases with permissions

Questions about permissions

What is permissions the plural of?
Permissions is the plural of permission.

Words near permissions in the dictionary

  1. permission structures
  2. permissioned
  3. permissioning
  4. permissionless
  5. permissionlessness
  6. permissions
  7. permissive
  8. permissive waste
  9. permissive working
  10. permissive-action link
  11. permissive-action links

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Adapted from Wiktionary: permissions (page history and authors); permission (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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