Free and Permit

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Free verb - To set free (as from slavery or confinement).

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Permit and free are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Permit" instead a verb "Free".

Nearby Words: freely, freed

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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Free and permit are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Free" instead a verb "Permit".

So instead they make a deal with the highest ranking Nazi they permit to escape justice: They will be free to run so long as they make themselves useful to their bottom line.

Source: Necessarily Evil
Notably, they enforced the Fugitive Slave Law in free states and to permit and uphold slavery in U.S.

Source: Useful Notes / The American Civil War
Establishing a permit system to restrict interstate travel, which is officially done to stop the free travel of criminals and terrorists, but is really about compiling a database on everyone's movements for political purposes.

Source: President Evil

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