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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Permission \Per*mis"sion\, noun [L. permissio: cf. F. permission. See {Permit}.] The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.
High permission of all-ruling Heaven. --Milton.
You have given me your permission for this address. --Dryden.
Syn: Leave; liberty; license.
Usage: {Leave}, {Permission}. Leave implies that the recipient may decide whether to use the license granted or not. Permission is the absence on the part of another of anything preventive, and in general, at least by implication, signifies approval.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
permission
noun
1: approval to do something; "he asked permission to leave"
2: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: {license}, {permit}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "permission": John Hancock, OK, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, affirmance, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreement, allowance, approbation, approval, assent, authentication, authorization, aye, blessing, certification, charter, compliance, confirmation, connivance, consent, countenance, countersignature, diplomatic immunity, discharge, eagerness, endorsement, enfranchisement, exception, exemption, franchise, go-ahead, green light, immunity, imprimatur, indulgence, laxity, leave, legislative immunity, lenience, leniency, liberty, license, nod, notarization, okay, patent, permit, privilege, promptitude, promptness, ratification, readiness, release, rubber stamp, sanction, seal, sigil, signature, signet, stamp, stamp of approval, submission, subscription, sufferance, the nod, tolerance, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, validation, visa, vise, warrant, willingness
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
permission (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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