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What does permissively mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a permissive manner.
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The usually able Dan Foster directed the muddled piece permissively.
In the long run, when children are treated too permissively, their behavior can become bigger and more drastic.
If powers are precisely rather than permissively formulated, procedures to render visible occasions of use are constructed.
The Supreme Court interpreted this permissively in a 1978 case on taxation — but you can be sure a compact that affected presidential elections without Congress's approval would get litigated, big-time.
Even in those jurisdictions which had formal policies on these matters, we noted that in some cases the policies appeared to have been interpreted extremely permissively.
It should regulate all electronic monitoring, even if it does so permissively.

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