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allowed

/əˈlaʊd/
verb
  1. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.

    "to allow a servant his liberty;  to allow a free passage;  to allow one day for rest"

  2. To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.

    "to allow a right;  to allow a claim;  to allow the truth of a proposition"

  3. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

    "To allow a sum for leakage."

Synonymsadmit, allot, assign, bestow, concede, let
adjective
  1. Allotted.

  2. Acknowledged; admitted to be true.

  3. Permitted, authorized.

Antonymsforbidden, prohibited

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