Definition of "permitting" []

• Present participle of permit. (verb)

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• "Banning abortion could make a police state more likely, but then again permitting it could lead to making it mandatory (and to a police state)."
• "The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is preparing to begin permitting for drilling by June, 2009."
• "You know like tax incentives for our American Industries to come home, you know like tax incentives for industries to initiate better and cleaner methodologies, you know like decreasing the bureaucratic nightmare in permitting a new industrial site?"