Dictionary Definition
admission
Noun
1 the act of admitting someone to enter; "the
surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic" [syn:
admittance]
2 an acknowledgment of the truth of
something
3 the fee charged for admission [syn: entrance
fee, admission
charge, admission
fee, admission
price, price of
admission, entrance
money]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ædˈmɪʃ.ən/
- Rhymes: -ɪʃən
Noun
- 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 asserted; acknowledgment; concession.
- (Law) 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
- (Eng. Eccl. Law) 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.
Extensive Definition
Admission may refer to several things:
In general usage
- Confession
- Allowance into a theater, movie theater, music venue, or other event locale, especially when purchased with a ticket
In education
In law
- Admission (law), a statement that may be used in court against the person making it
- Admission to the bar, change in status allowing an applicant to become part of a profession
- Acceptance of admissible evidence in court
In medicine
- The process by which patients enter into inpatient care
In science and engineering
- Admittance, the inverse of impedance
admission in French: Admission
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Americanization,
OK, acceptance, access, acculturation, acknowledging, acknowledgment, acquisition, adit, admissibility, admission
fee, admittance,
admitting, adoption, affidavit, affiliation, affirmation, allegation, allowance, allowing, anchorage, appointment, appreciation, assertion, asseveration, assimilation, assumption, attest, attestation, averment, avouchment, avowal, baptism, brokerage, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, charter, citizenship by
naturalization, citizenship papers, completeness, comprehension, comprehensiveness,
comprisal, compurgation, conceding, concession, confession, consent, cover charge, coverage, culture shock,
declaration,
demand, deposition, derivation, disclosure, dispensation, divulgement, divulgence, dockage, dues, eligibility, embodiment, embracement, encompassment, enlistment, enrollment, entrance, entrance fee,
entree, entry, envisagement, exaction, exactment, exhaustiveness, fare, fee, getting, hire, immission, import, importation, importing, inauguration, inclusion, inclusiveness, income, incoming, incorporation, induction, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, initiation, input, insertion, insinuation, installation, instatement, institution, instrument in
proof, intake, interpenetration,
introduction,
introgression,
intromission,
intrusion, investiture, leakage, leave, legal evidence, liberty, license, license fee, membership, nationalization,
naturalization,
naturalized citizenship, okay, openness, ordination, owning, owning up, papers, participation, patent, penetration, percolation, permission, permission to
enter, pilotage,
portage, profession, receipt, receival, receiving, reception, recognition, release, revelation, rite of
confession, salvage,
scot, scot and lot,
seepage, shot, shrift, special permission,
statement, storage, sworn evidence, sworn
statement, sworn testimony, taking, tariff, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, ticket, ticket of admission,
tolerance, toleration, toll, towage, unbosoming, vouchsafement, waiver, way, wharfage, whole, witness, word