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toestaan — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • admit verb To allow someone or something to enter.
  • allow verb To give permission for something to happen.
  • enable verb To give someone the ability, means, or authority to do something.
  • let verb To allow someone or something to do a particular thing, or to happen without stopping it.
  • permit verb To allow something to happen or to give someone authorization to do it.

Senses

toestaan is used for these senses in English:

  • allow To not bar or obstruct.
  • allow (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
  • enable (chiefly, electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
  • permit (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to. [from 15th c.]

admit — full definition

  1. verb To allow someone or something to enter.
  2. verb To acknowledge, often reluctantly, that something is true.

allow — full definition

  1. verb To give permission for something to happen.
  2. verb To make something possible.
  3. verb To set aside time, money, or another resource for something.
  4. verb To admit or acknowledge something as true, often reluctantly.

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