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"permission" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often consent (7 letters).
Definitions
the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
Word origin
From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Equivalent to permit + -ion. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).
Used in a sentence
“Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?”
“I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.”
“Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Consent or authorization”10 letters
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