Permit may refer to:
- Permit (fish), a game fish of the western Atlantic ocean belonging to the Carangidae family, Trachinotus falcatus
- Various legal licenses:
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- 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:
“We permit all things to ourselves, and that which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature’s laws are more immutable than any despot’s, yet to man’s daily life they rarely seem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)