Plural of permission
regular plural
The plural of permission is permissions.
Forms of permission
| Singular | permission /pəˈmɪʃ.ən/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | permissions |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Permissions in a sentence
- The Chaos Gang managed to get administrator permissions and nuke the entire server in seconds.From the entry nuke
- The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs.From the entry principle
- User self-elevation occurs when mobile, remote, or power users need to run software that is usually run by only users with administrator-level permissions.From the entry self-elevation
- I had set permissions on the public folders so no one could create any a while back.2002 June 12, mrlargeit, “Public Folder Store Disappeared”, in microsoft.public.exchange2000.information.store (Usenet). From the entry cattle truck
- This is done by breaking down each set of permissions (user, group, and other) to represent an octet.2003, Nitesh Dhanjani, Linux and UNIX security portable reference. From the entry octet
Meaning of permission
- noun Authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority).
- noun The act of permitting.
- noun Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
Questions about the plural of permission
- What is the plural of permission?
- The plural of permission is permissions.
- Is permission countable?
- Permission is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: permission (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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