allowed
Definitions of allowed
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that may be permitted especially as according to rulesynonyms: allowable, permissibletolerablecapable of being borne or endured
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allowed / aloud
If you're allowed to eat cookies after dinner but your brother isn't, don't say it aloud. To be allowed to do something is to have permission, but to say something aloud is to speak it.
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