Approve and Permit

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Approve verb - To give official acceptance of as satisfactory.

Usage example: as soon as the pond project was approved, the bulldozers were at the site

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Permit is a synonym for approve in allow topic. In some cases you can use "Permit" instead a verb "Approve", when it comes to topics like agree to.

Nearby Words: approval, approbation, approving, approvingly, approvement

Permit verb - To give permission to.

Usage example: you are not permitted to swim at the town pond without a season pass

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Approve is a synonym for permit in allow topic. You can use "Approve" instead a verb "Permit".

action	approve action	permit action
change	approve change	permit change
support	approve support	permit support
use	approve use	permit use
Other words: plan, law, entry, release, products.

Hoist by His Own Petard: Inverted — he caused this with an anti-drug comic (commissioned by the US Government) that The Comics Code Authority refused to approve due to arcane language that did not permit any portrayal of drugs, whether positive or negative.

Source: Creator / Stan Lee

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