Definition of "let" []

• To give permission or opportunity to; allow: I let them borrow the car. The inheritance let us finally buy a house. See Usage Note at leave1. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to; make: Let the news be known. (verb-transitive)
• Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a command, request, or proposal: Let's finish the job! Let x equal y. (verb-transitive)
• Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a warning or threat: Just let her try! (verb-transitive)
• To permit to enter, proceed, or depart: let the dog in. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You want to let the rich get richer..let them move their factories to Asia."
• "“Why, I believe, if you will let me take Philip Wakem into our confidence, —let me tell him all about your wish to buy, and what it’s for; that my cousins wish to have it, and why they wish to have it, —I believe Philip would help to bring it about."
• "“Whatever happens to me let me not be unjust, ” she said; “let me bear my burdens myself, and not shift them upon others!"