LET IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does let in mean? 

• LET IN (verb)
  The verb LET IN has 2 senses:

1. allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of

2. allow to enter; grant entry to

  Familiarity information: LET IN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LET IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

admit; include; let in

Context example:

She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar

Hypernyms (to "let in" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

accept; admit; take; take on (admit into a group or community)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "let in"):

induct; initiate (accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite)

readmit (admit again or anew)

involve (engage as a participant)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Allow to enter; grant entry to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

admit; allow in; intromit; let in

Context example:

This pipe admits air

Hypernyms (to "let in" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

admit (serve as a means of entrance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "let in"):

repatriate (admit back into the country)

readmit (admit anew)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP

 Context examples 

“There is a furnished little set of chambers to be let in the Adelphi, Trot, which ought to suit you to a marvel.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One evening, as they were thus sitting comfortably together, someone knocked at the door as if he wished to be let in.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Each night, after Sierra Vista had gone to bed, she rose and let in White Fang to sleep in the big hall.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Stomata are the pores that let in carbon dioxide, allowing a tree to carry out photosynthesis.

(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)

The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I have just opened the window, to let in a little air and sunshine; for everything gets so damp in apartments that are seldom inhabited; the drawing-room yonder feels like a vault.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Evidently there was a skylight which let in light from above.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had fallen back on her pillow asleep; she did not even wake when I had pulled up the blind and let in the sunlight which flooded the room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was a sportsman, was Godfrey, down to his marrow, and he wouldn’t have stopped his training and let in his skipper if it were not for some cause that was too strong for him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’m not very good at telling a story, Dr. Watson, but it is like this with me: I used to have a billet at Coxon & Woodhouse, of Drapers’ Gardens, but they were let in early in the spring through the Venezuelan loan, as no doubt you remember, and came a nasty cropper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)