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• Let Verb
  1. To allow, not to prevent (+ infinitive, usually without to).
     • After he knocked for hours, I decided to let him come in.
  2. To allow the release of (a fluid).
     • The physicians let about a pint of his blood, but to no avail.
  3. To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
     • I decided to let the farmhouse to a couple while I was working abroad.
  4. To cause (+ bare infinitive).
     • Thenne the kyng lete serche how moche people of his party ther was slayne.
     • Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, / Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand.
     • Can you let me know what time you'll be arriving?.
  5. To hinder, prevent.
• Let Noun
  1. A hindrance.
     • ...without let or hindrance (on all commonwealth passports).
  2. The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.