to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
to permit; allow.
to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.
to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.
verb (used without object),ad·mit·ted,ad·mit·ting.
to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.
to permit the possibility of something; allow (usually followed by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation.
Origin of admit
1375–1425; <Latin admittere, equivalent to ad-ad- + mittere to send, let go; replacing late Middle English amitte, with a-a-5 (instead of ad-) <Middle French amettre<Latin, as above
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It’s very difficult to do a comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of different climate projects, and experts freely admit they’re not 100 percent sure they’ve made the best recommendations.
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It’s not encouraging that they’re essentially admitting they have no profitable places to invest the other 80% of their earnings.
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In 2015, the automaker admitted that about 11 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide were fitted with devices that gave false readings during emissions tests.
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In my household, it has led to more chaos than I would like to admit.
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Neil Carson, the CEO of rival data startup Yellowbrick, admits that Snowflake’s software is a “brilliant innovation.”
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President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to force Faubus to admit the students to Central High School.
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Fulkerson sympathizes with March, and he gets Dryfoos to admit that he should not have spoke to March as he did.
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I admit, I chuckled when I read the phrase “boomtown effects” in the New York report.
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The interval between possession and hell was short,” he says, “though I admit it was wonderful.
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Chris Christie may be feeling a little bit lighter today, though it's unlikely he would ever admit it.
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And here I must admit that this is about as far as we have got at present in the investigation of this relationship.
Astronomical Discovery|Herbert Hall Turner
Of course, Boyne, I admit that in this affair you'll be up to a little sharp practice.
Blow The Man Down|Holman Day
In this material and in such forms, the ideal as concrete spirituality does not admit of being realized.
The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts|Georg Hegel
And yet I must admit that this thing that has happened does not affect me as it should.
The Picture of Dorian Gray|Oscar Wilde
"But you must admit that it is a tough proposition to mine here," said Mr. Brewster.
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British Dictionary definitions for admit
admit
/ (ədˈmɪt) /
verb-mits, -mittingor-mitted(mainly tr)
(may take a clause as object)to confess or acknowledge (a crime, mistake, etc)
(may take a clause as object)to concede (the truth or validity of something)
to allow to enter; let in
(foll by to)to allow participation (in) or the right to be part (of)to admit to the profession
(when intr, foll by of) to allow (of); leave room (for)
(intr)to give accessthe door admits onto the lawn
Word Origin for admit
C14: from Latin admittere to let come or go to, from ad- to + mittere to send