Allow and Backwater

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Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.

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Backwater is an antonym for allow.

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Backwater noun - A rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country.

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Allow is an antonym for backwater in topics: delay, declare null and void.

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The empire is mostly a meritocracy and thus a peasant from a backwater community like him can raise up in its ranks as far as his talent and luck will allow him.

Source: Hegemonic Empire

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