permit
n. countablen. an official document that gives you legal permission to do something. You often need one for things like parking, building a house, or working in a new country.
n. an official document or certificate providing formal authorization to perform a specific action or occupy a space. Often issued by a government or regulatory body.
You need a parking permit to leave your car here.
The construction crew had to stop work because they did not have the correct building permit from the city.
Securing a research permit for the protected rainforest requires a detailed proposal outlining the environmental impact of the study and the expected duration of the stay.
From Middle English permitten, borrowed from Middle French permettre, from Latin permittō (“give up, allow”), from per (“through”) + mittō (“send”).
An irregular borrowing from Spanish palometa, probably from a Doric variant of Ancient Greek πηλαμύς (pēlamús, “young tuna”).
Commonly followed by the preposition 'for' or an infinitive 'to' phrase.
I have a permit of parkingI have a parking permitLearners often use a prepositional phrase with 'of' instead of using 'permit' as the head of a compound noun or following it with an infinitive.