Allow
Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.
Front for
Both terms in one sentence
- Toyman's first appearance in Superman: The Animated Series gives this as his backstory — Toyman's father took a loan from gangster Bruno Mannheim, was forced to allow his toy factory to be used as a front for Mannheim's criminal enterprises, and took the fall when the police closed in.
Source: Foster Kid - It's really a front for unleashing the power of the Horoscopes, using the kids for experiments with Switches, and eventually gathering all twelve fully-evolved Switches to open up a black hole that'd destroy Japan and allow the Big Bad to meet aliens and transcend humanity in the process.
Source: School for Scheming
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