Used in a Sentence

allowing

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for allowing.

Editorial note

But even then, the storage is often allowing those plants to run at their optimally efficient design capacity.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

To not bar or obstruct.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of allowing gathered in one view.

verb

To not bar or obstruct.

verb

(transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.

verb

(ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for allowing.

verb

To not bar or obstruct.

verb

(transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.

verb

(ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.

verb

(transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion.

Example sentences

1

But even then, the storage is often allowing those plants to run at their optimally efficient design capacity.

2

The system is going to be centralised around forecasting the future of your company and allowing you to quickly act on changes.

3

That would be a great solution for rolling your own budget tracker and allowing access for services like mint.

4

The VMs are still his responsibility - he is just allowing other people to use them.

5

I imagine there's a fear that allowing humour will lead to this place being like Reddit (ie.

6

Microsoft was almost certainly negligent in allowing this to come to market.

7

Range can do nothing without the minister allowing it.

8

I wonder how people would react if folks opened a store in New York City or DC allowing only 'international' patrons, that is, tourists?

9

We're trying to figure out the right balance between allowing anybody to quickly look up an app but not becoming the hammer that end users take to bash developers.

10

I suppose I am also curious that, if the experiment of allowing humour has not been tried, where did the idea to disallow humour come from?

11

I suppose the idea is allowing more than a single paper and/or implementation in each topic, since a certain paper can have a follow-over or technical report and be implemented in different languages or over different frameworks.

12

What is more interesting is that it has been recently found that ultrasounds can make the blood brain barrier leaky allowing you to get drugs into the brain that normally are blocked.

Quote examples

1

We should rather focus on allowing making "regular" dying more dignified rather than promoting euthanasia.

2

Actually, the page rendered even better this way, because the links on the page worked just fine, which is not the case if allowing 3rd-party scripts from "netdna-ssl.com".

3

Well, in the context of the thesis that companies like Uber are allowing people to partly convert consumption assets into production ones, to an economist it strikes me as not unreasonable he'd describe it as both "amazing" and an innovation.

4

If you took it, you'd be instantly and lastingly satisfied, allowing you to do work and stay very productive without the need to "waste time" socializing, practicing sports or w/e -- and suppose this satisfaction is indeed indistinguishable or better from activity-borne satisfaction.

Proper noun examples

1

Allowing users to define what they'd like to see is great.

2

Allowing users to bypass security mechanisms will ensure they get bypassed.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use allowing in a sentence?

But even then, the storage is often allowing those plants to run at their optimally efficient design capacity.

What does allowing mean?

To not bar or obstruct.

What part of speech is allowing?

allowing is commonly used as verb.