Results for let
Definitions of let:
part of speech: verb transitive
To permit; grant to a tenant; lease; give out on contract; allow to be done.
part of speech: present participle
Letting.
part of speech: verb transitive
part of speech: past tense, past participle
Let.
part of speech: verb
To allow, suffer, or permit; to grant to a tenant; to put to hire; to give power or leave to; to leave.
part of speech: verb transitive
To hinder.
part of speech: past tense, past participle
To let alone, to suffer to remain; to let be, to leave off; to discontinue; to let go; to let blood, to free it from its confinement; to suffer it to flow out of the vein; to let down, to lower; to permit to sink; to let drive or fly, to send forth or discharge with violence, as a stone; to let in, to allow to enter; to insert, as a piece of wood; to let into, to give admission; to make acquainted with; to let loose, to free from restraint; to let off, to discharge, as an arrow or gun; to release, as from an engagement; to suffer to escape; to let on, in Scot., to seem to observe anything; to mention a thing; to let out, to suffer to escape; to give to hire or farm.
part of speech: noun
( law) Hinderance, obstruction: delay.
part of speech: verb
To impede; to obstruct; to hinder- in this sense used as a noun, in the phrase, " without let or hindrance".
part of speech: verb transitive
To slacken or loose restraint upon: to give leave or power to: to allow, permit, suffer: to grant to a tenant or hirer:- pr. p. letting; pa. t. and pa. p. let.