What is the meaning of permissible?

adjective

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