Permit

Permit may refer to:

  • Permit (fish), a game fish of the western Atlantic ocean belonging to the Carangidae family, Trachinotus falcatus
  • Various legal licenses:
  • License
  • Work permit, legal authorization which allows a person to take employment
  • Learner's permit, restricted license that is given to a person who is learning to drive
  • International Driving Permit, allows an individual to drive a private motor vehicle in another nation
  • Disabled parking permit, displayed upon a vehicle carrying a person whose mobility is significantly impaired
  • Protest permit, permission granted by a governmental agency for a demonstration
  • Construction permit, required in most jurisdictions for new construction, or adding on to pre-existing structures
  • Filming Permit, required in most jurisdictions for filming motion pictures and television
  • Home Return Permit, Mainland (China) Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Residents
  • One-way Permit, document issued by the PRC allowing residents of mainland China to leave the mainland for Hong Kong
  • Thresher/Permit class submarine, a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines in service with the United States Navy
  • USS Permit (SS-178), a Porpoise-class submarine of the United States Navy
  • USS Permit (SSN-594), the lead ship of her class of submarine of the United States Navy

Famous quotes containing the word permit:

    “Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”
    —St. Francis Of Assisi (c. 1182–1226)

    “This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.”
    —Sojourner Truth (c. 1777–1883)

    “Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.”
    —Leslie Fiedler (b. 1917)