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:
“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“If I asked her master he’d give me a cask a day;
But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may
The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)
“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)