permissive waste

1. 1.

   (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

   Synonymswaste

   Broaderact

   law

Questions about permissive waste

What does permissive waste mean?

permissive waste means "(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect".

What is another word for permissive waste?

Close synonyms include waste. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is permissive waste a common word?

permissive waste is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.