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
disallow
non-valid
off-limits
out of boundsidiom
outlaw
prohibit
unapproved
unauthorized
unkosher
unsanctioned
verboten

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UK politics: legislation & law-making

Examples of disallowing

disallowing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
As mentioned before, disallowing nesting of the new instantiation simplifies mode analysis.
This procedure was intended to minimize poorer performance on longer lists by disallowing them from systematically occurring after shorter lists.
Disallowing general recursion is requisite for an accurate cost analysis.
This information is recorded as one or more constraints (or nogoods) which aid future search by disallowing the inconsistencies that led to this dead end.
Our position might be thought of as allowing coarse-grained and uncertain information, but disallowing fine-grained or certain information.
The new law introduced management fees and raised the cap on rate-of-return fees, while disallowing up-front fees.
Conversely, predicates disallowing that-deletion do not have this entailment.
The variants will arise by disallowing some of the structural rules for ','.
Languages lacking such a contrast can reasonably be treated as disallowing branching nuclei.
This differs from other more abstract accounts by disallowing underlying distinctions which contradict (or are otherwise incompatible with) the child's own production facts.
An important simplification is made by disallowing multi-branched loops.
We could avoid this problem by disallowing consumer nodes for generator nodes on other branches.
Disallowing loops is also necessary for uniqueness: a graph with loops never has exactly one dual (unless it is itself a loop).
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