permission
permission Lexical Profile
permission Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The action of officially allowing someone to do a particular thing; formal consent or authorization.
"The students must obtain written permission from their parents before participating in the overnight field trip."
An official document, permit, or digital setting (frequently in the plural in computing) that grants a user or system the right to access, view, or modify specific resources.
"The system administrator updated the file permissions so that only members of the research team could edit the shared database."
Word Nuance & Usage
In general contexts meaning consent or authorization, 'permission' is strictly an uncountable mass noun (e.g., 'ask for permission', not 'ask for a permission'); its countable plural 'permissions' is reserved for official documents or computing access privileges.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French permission and directly from Latin permissionem ('a letting go, leave, surrender'), from the past participle stem of permittere, combining per- ('through') and mittere ('to send, let go').