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:

    A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
    Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

    The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
    18th-century English proverb.

    We have not been fair with the Negro and his education. He has not had adequate or ample education to permit him to qualify for many jobs that are open to him.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)