Meaning of permitted in English

(Definition of permitted from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of permitted

permitted
They were permitted one repetition of each of the training phases if this 75% criterion was not initially met.
This is not to say, it must be noted, that interference with people's disvaluable goals is necessarily permitted.
However, retaliation against implicit environmental subsidies is not permitted under these rules.
Variables within time points were permitted to correlate; however, these relations are not shown to simplify presentation.
The development of large-scale data collection, for example, has also permitted the development of an 'early warning system' in relation to low-incidence medical complications.
The 13-cm radius outer wall is permitted to emit electrons where the plasma is in contact.
Where the plasma is in contact with the outer wall, electron space-chargelimited emission is permitted.
As a supplementary policy, the government permitted pricing based on costs for new health services, mainly high-technology services.
A policy specifies what system calls are permitted, and the ways they can be used.
The screening system permitted a population approach for quantification of changes in seed population thermal behaviour in relation to dormancy loss.
We have permitted ourselves some syntactic flexibility in presenting the metaprogram.
So, permitted deceleration of the mobile robot is restricted by the proposed algorithm.
Since the image synthesizer has a 7-bit resolution for the spatial phase, it permitted gratings to be displayed at 128 distinct phases.
The cooling paradigm also permitted rapid reversal and repeated demonstration of deficits in the same testing session.
Has this increase permitted an increase in the percentage of women?
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