admit

Definitions


[ədˈmɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- confess to be true or to be the case
(e.g: the Home Office finally admitted that several prisoners had been injured)

- allow (someone) to enter a place
(e.g: old-age pensioners are admitted free to the museum)

- accept as valid
(e.g: the courts can refuse to admit police evidence that has been illegally obtained)

- allow the possibility of
(e.g: the need to inform him was too urgent to admit of further delay)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin admittere, from ad- ‘to’ + mittere ‘send’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries