Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not permitted; not permissible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not permissible; not to be permitted or allowed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not permissible.
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- adjective Not
permissible ; not to bepermitted orallowed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not allowable
- adjective not permitted
Etymologies
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Examples
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To say that something is done by right in Spinoza's sense is to say that there is nothing in virtue of which that action can be judged impermissible, which is different from judging the action to be appropriate according to some new normative standard.
Spinoza's Political Philosophy Steinberg, Justin 2008
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Players' attorney Jeffrey Kessler, who also represented the NFL players, was named in the NBA's lawsuit for his use of what the league called an "impermissible pressure tactic" that has had a "direct, immediate and harmful" effect on CBA talks.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Players' attorney Jeffrey Kessler, who also represented the NFL players, was named in the NBA's lawsuit for his use of what the league called an "impermissible pressure tactic" that has had a "direct, immediate and harmful" effect on CBA talks.
SI.com 2011
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Players' lawyer Jeffrey Kessler, who also represented the NFL players, was named in the NBA's lawsuit for his use of what the league called an "impermissible pressure tactic" that has had a "direct, immediate and harmful" effect on CBA talks.
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Players' attorney Jeffrey Kessler, who also represented the NFL players, was named in the NBA's lawsuit for his use of what the league called an "impermissible pressure tactic" that has had a "direct, immediate and harmful" effect on CBA talks.
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Further, the ruling identified as impermissible any change of the Basic Law, as far as it affects or weakens Article 1 (inviolability of human dignity) and Article 20 (the identity of Germany as a democratic and social state, Federal statehood and the republican principle, the people as sovereign, and the principle of the constitutional state).
LaRouche's Latest 2009
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He considered that belief to be a kind of impermissible Judaizing.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Russia said that was an "impermissible" interpretation because the
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Called the Amman Message, it is the first modern Islamic "consensus of scholars" that makes it "impermissible" upon Muslims to declare other Muslims apostates.
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Rescue headquarters 'spokesman Liu Dezheng said gas was at an "impermissible" level.
IOL: News 2010
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