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let

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verb (1)

ˈlet

let;letting;lets

Synonyms oflet next

transitive verb

:to cause to:make

let me know

:to give opportunity to or fail to prevent

live andlet live

a break in the cloudslet us see the summit

let the opportunity slip

—used in the imperative to introduce a request or proposal

let us pray

—used as an auxiliary to express a warning

let him try

:to free from or as if from confinement

let out a scream

let blood

:to permit to enter, pass, or leave

let them through

let them off with a warning

chiefly British:to offer or grant for rent or lease

let rooms

:to assign especially after bids

let a contract

:to make an adjustment to

let out the waist

intransitive verb

chiefly British:to become rented or leased

:to become awarded to a contractor

let

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noun

:something that impedes:obstruction

… ruled his little world without hindrance orlet.—

B. F. Reilly

:a shot or point in racket games that does not count and must be replayed

let

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verb (2)

letted;letted or let;letting;lets

transitive verb

archaic

:hinder,prevent

-let

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noun suffix

:small one

booklet

:article worn on

wristlet

Synonyms oflet

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hire,let,lease,rent,charter mean to engage or grant for use at a price.

hire andlet, strictly speaking, are complementary terms,hire implying the act of engaging or taking for use andlet the granting of use.

wehired a car for the summer

decided tolet the cottage to a young couple

lease strictly implies a letting under the terms of a contract but is often applied to hiring on a lease.

the diplomatleased an apartment for a year

rent stresses the payment of money for the full use of property and may imply either hiring or letting.

instead of buying a house, they decided torent

will notrent to families with children

charter applies to the hiring or letting of a vehicle usually for exclusive use.

charter a bus to go to the game

Examples oflet in a Sentence

Verb (1) my parents would notlet me drive until I had a job and could pay for my own gas the pensioner has begunletting rooms in her home to earn some extra money the low gravity on the moonlets you make enormous leaps and jumps theylet their kids get away with murderNoun The first serve was alet. artists are allowed to sell their goods in the public square withoutlet or hindrance

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Identification requiresletting Chinese cultural logic influence the structure of a campaign — not just its visuals or celebrity cast.—

Yiling Pan,Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026To remove the wax, wipe out softened wax with paper towels, add cotton balls to absorb the liquid wax, orlet the wax harden and remove it by popping it out with a thin plastic spatula.—

Mary Marlowe Leverette,The Spruce, 16 Feb. 2026That includes an encounter with Keegan (Brett Goldstein, wasted), a friendly Brit flying kites on the beach — kites do a lot of symbolic heavy lifting in flashbacks — to whom Laura confesses that boozing was her only way ofletting go.—

David Rooney,HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026And director Hammond doesn’tlet the primitive miniseries technology defeat him.—

Bilge Ebiri,Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026See All Example Sentences forlet