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permit

 
/pərˈmɪt/ verb (present participle permitting, past tense and past participle permitted) formal

Definition

B1 to allow something: Photography is not permitted inside the museum.
(Definition of permit verb from the Webster's Essential Mini Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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