permission

Etymology

From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).

noun

1. authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
   Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
2. The act of permitting.
3. (computing) Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
   I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.

verb

1. (transitive) To grant or obtain authorization for.
   Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online. 2003, Mary Ellen Lepionka, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook, page 190