dispensationnoun
uk/ˌdɪs.penˈseɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdɪs.penˈseɪ.ʃən/formaldispensation noun (PERMISSION)
[ C or U ] special permission, especially from the Church, to do something that is not usually allowed:
The couple have requested (a) special dispensation from the Church to allow them to marry.
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Allowing and permitting
- admit of sth
- allow
- allow of sth
- allowable
- authorization
- authorize
- concession
- green
- leave
- let
- let sb/sth out
- licence
- license
- mandate
- OK
- open the floodgates idiom
- permissible
- sanction
- submit
- variance
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dispensation noun (SYSTEM)
[ C ] a political or religious system controlling a country at a particular time
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- Dem
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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