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May 22, 2012
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ad•mit



Pronunciation: (ad-mit'), [key]
—v., -mit•ted, -mit•ting.

—v.t.
1. to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
2. to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
3. to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
4. to permit; allow.
5. to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
6. to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.
7. to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
8. to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.

—v.i.
1. to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.
2. to grant opportunity or permission (usually fol. by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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