ALLOW | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary Allow, permit and let are verbs that all have a similar meaning: ‘give permission or make it possible for somebody to do or have something’ … We use a direct object + to-infinitive after permit and allow: … We use an infinitive without to after let: … We often use the passive with permit and allow
Allows - definition of allows by The Free Dictionary 1 To offer a possibility; admit: The poem allows of several interpretations 2 To take a possibility into account; make allowance: In calculating profit, retailers must allow for breakage and spoilage
ALLOW definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary Smoking will not be allowed If you are allowed something, you are given permission to have it or are given it Gifts like chocolates or flowers are allowed If you allow something to happen, you do not prevent it He won't allow himself to fail
allow - Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online • Paul's bank now allows him £35 a week, and Geoff can withdraw no more than £40 • He spent more than ten days in the neurology unit at Glasgow's Southern General before being allowed home
allow - Wiktionary, the free dictionary allow (third-person singular simple present allows, present participle allowing, simple past and past participle allowed) (ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something quotations
allow - WordReference. com Dictionary of English Allow, let, permit imply granting or conceding the right of someone to do something Allow and permit are often interchangeable, but permit is the more positive Allow implies complete absence of an attempt, or even an intent, to hinder Permit suggests formal or implied assent or authorization
allow verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . . Definition of allow verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary to let somebody something do something; to let something happen or be done allow somebody something to do something His parents won't allow him to stay out late He allowed his mind to wander The law allowed companies to dismiss workers without any reason