Permissible Definition & Meaning

permissible
adjective
  1. that may be permitted especially as according to rule; "permissible behavior in school"; "a permissible tax deduction"
  2. that may be accepted or conceded; "a kind of speculation that was permissible in cosmology but inadmissible in medicine"

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