[pəˈmɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- officially allow (someone) to do something
(e.g: the law permits councils to monitor any factory emitting smoke)


Phrases:
- permit me

Origin:
late Middle English (originally in the sense ‘commit, hand over’): from Latin permittere, from per- ‘through’ + mittere ‘send, let go’

[ˈpəːmɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an official document giving someone authorization to do something
(e.g: he is only in Britain on a work permit)


Phrases:
- permit me

Origin:
late Middle English (originally in the sense ‘commit, hand over’): from Latin permittere, from per- ‘through’ + mittere ‘send, let go’

[ˈpəːmɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western Atlantic and Caribbean and caught for food and sport


Phrases:

Origin:
alteration of Spanish palometa ‘little dove’