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"allow" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often permit (6 letters).
Definitions
To permit or give permission.
Word origin
From Middle English allowen, alowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman allouer, alouer, from Medieval Latin allaudāre, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin allocō (“to assign”). Doublet of allaud (via allaudāre) or allocate (via allocāre).
Used in a sentence
“to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest”
“[…] he needed a great deal of money, but his uncle only allowed him two thousand roubles a year, which was not enough, and for days together he would run about Moscow with his tongue out, as the saying is.”
“The event allows of only one interpretation.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Give permission”5 letters
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