Are You Allowed to Work at 14 in Colorado?

ALLOWED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of allow 2. to give permission for someone to do something, or…. Learn more. ALLOWED definition: permitted or authorized. See examples of allowed used in a sentence. If you are allowed something, you are given permission to have it or are given it. a. To admit; concede: I allowed he was right. b. To think; suppose: "We allow he's straight" (American Speech). c. To assert; declare: Mother allowed that we'd better come in for dinner. allow somebody/yourself something to let somebody have something You're allowed an hour to complete the test. I'm not allowed visitors. I allow myself a treat now and then. She allowed herself a thin smile of triumph.

If you're allowed to eat cookies after dinner but your brother isn't, don't say it aloud. To be allowed to do something is to have permission, but to say something aloud is to speak it.