| Let 1. (v. t.) To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose. 2. (n.) A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic. 3. (n.) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over. 4. (imp. & p. p.) of Let 5. (v. t.) To leave; to relinquish; to abandon. 6. (v. t.) To consider; to think; to esteem. 7. (v. t.) To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought. 8. (v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent. 9. (v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses. 10. (v. t.) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering. 11. (v. i.) To forbear. 12. (v. i.) To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t. 13. (n.) A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet, wavelet, armlet. Thesaurus Entries OK, accord, accredit, admit, allow, approve, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, assume, authorize, bareboat charter, be afraid, believe, bleed, blockage, blocking, broach, certify, charter, chartered, check, clogging, closing up, closure, commission, concede, conceive, conclude, consent, consider, constriction, cramp, daresay, decant, deduce, deem, delay, detainment, detention, dispense, divine, draft, draft off, drain, draw, draw from, draw off, dream, employed, empty, endorse, exhaust, expect, fancy, farm, farm out, feel, fixation, foot-dragging, gather, give leave, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, grant, hampering, have, hindering, hindrance, hire, hire out, hired, hireling, hiring, holdback, holdup, imagine, impediment, infer, inhibition, interference, interruption, job, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, leased, leave, lend-lease, let be, let blood, let off, let out, license, make possible, mercenary, milk, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, okay, opine, opposition, paid, permit, phlebotomize, pipette, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, provisionally accept, pump, pump out, reckon, release, rent, rent out, rental, rented, repression, repute, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, sanction, say, say the word, setback, siphon off, squeeze, stranglehold, stricture, sublease, subleased, sublet, subrent, suck, suck out, suffer, suppose, suppression, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, tap, think, underlet, understand, venesect, vouchsafe |