permissibly
- adverb
- /pərˈmɪsəblɪ/
:
permitidamente
- The statute could permissibly name President Nixon because his were the only presidential materials that required attention (n227).
- permissibly regulated
Examples
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Students are permissibly allowed to use calculators during the final exam as outlined in the syllabus.
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Thus, even those documents which may only impact national security at the margins are permissibly withheld upon a proper claim of privilege.
Academic text (2007) -
The Supreme Court has explained that Congress may permissibly set conditions for the receipt of federal funds, even as to areas that Congress might otherwise not be able to regulate.
Academic text (2002) -
In order for the government to permissibly regulate salary history questions during the employment process, the regulation must be narrowly restrictive and further the substantial government interest. (208)
Academic text (2018) -
In order for the Philadelphia ordinance and other similarly written laws to permissibly regulate an employer's commercial speech, they need not work perfectly in every single instance to eliminate pay disparity, but they must reasonably further the stated interest of narrowing the wage gap. (262) #2.
Academic text (2018) -
The guidelines state that expenses can be permissibly reimbursed if they follow the approved criteria.
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In most cases, employees are permissibly encouraged to take short breaks to improve productivity.
Synonyms
421
2.8
In a way that the law allows
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3.7
In a way that follows the law or accepted rules
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2.5
In a way that the law allows
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8.2
In a way that follows the law
In a way the rules allow
Antonyms
How Permissible
Surface Forms
Morphology
permissibly = permissible (semi-transparent) = permit + ible + ly
Formation from 'permissible' + '-ly' is a regular adjective-to-adverb derivation that directly yields the adverbial meaning.
Etymology
Permissibly comes from permit and permission, words that mean 'to allow'. Think of a permit that lets you 'go through' a rule or place, so to act permissibly is to act in a way that is 'allowed' by the rules.