allow(GIVE PERMISSION)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to forbid someone or something
forbidHe grew up in a strict household where dating was forbidden.
disallowUpon review, the goal was disallowed.
banThe government has banned the sale of lead-based paint.
prohibitVehicles are prohibited from parking on the grass.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forbidding and banning things
abolish
abolition
abolitionist
anti-censorship
ban
debar someone from something/doing something
decertification
decertify
deny something to someone
disqualification
off-limits
out of boundsidiom
outlaw
prohibit
prohibition
unauthorized
unkosher
unsanctioned
verboten
veto

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UK politics: legislation & law-making

disallow | Business English

disallow
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌdɪsəˈlaʊ/us
to state officially that something cannot be accepted or allowed, because it has not been done in the correct way:
The monopolies legislation disallows mergers of major companies within one industry.
disallow claims/deductions/regulations

Examples of disallow

disallow
At the same time, limiting references to closed code types is too restrictive because it disallows references to functions.
Either method would disallow a wrong prediction of factoring out a predictive auxiliary tree when extracting from a subject, for instance.
Given this restriction, the well-formedness of (53), which contains the disallowed past tense verb, is puzzling.
Improving stability came through the consolidation of power within a smaller number of political parties, and disallowing politicians from switching parties at will.
That specifications are preserved by verified programs is a consequence of the idea of enriching types and disallowing method update.
Two-valued logic admits only the interpretation that the state is disallowed, which automatically makes this condition symmetric.
This data restriction disallowed for any meaningful discussion about economic status of entrepreneurs as compared with that of political, managerial, and professional elites.
In 1995, education programs were limited to two years in length except in unusual circumstances, and four-year programs were disallowed.
As mentioned before, disallowing nesting of the new instantiation simplifies mode analysis.
In the new world coming into being that 'tyrannical humour ' would be disallowed.
However, three-valued logic admits the meaning that the state 1 is disallowed.
The syntactic dependency, although structurally possible, is disallowed due to the feature specification of the pronoun.
This procedure was intended to minimize poorer performance on longer lists by disallowing them from systematically occurring after shorter lists.
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