admission - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'admission' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Admission

[ n.]

- The act or practice of admitting.
- Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
- The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.
- Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
- A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
- Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.

Meaning of 'admission' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . admission

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- the act of admitting someone to enter

Example in sentence:

the surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic

Nearby Words:

admarginate admaxillary admeasure admeasurer admensuration adminicle adminicular adminiculary administer administered

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