hire, let, lease, rent, charter mean to engage or grant for use at a price. hire and let, strictly speaking, are complementary terms, hire implying the act of engaging or taking for use and let the granting of use.

Let us is the first person plural imperative, which we only use in very formal situations. Let’s is the short form, which we often use to make suggestions which include ourselves: …

1. To slow down; diminish: didn't let up in their efforts. 2. To become less severe or intense: The rain let up.

If you let a person or an animal into, out of, or through a place, you allow them to enter, leave, or go through it, for example, by opening a door or making room for them.

-let is attached to a noun to form a noun that is a smaller version of the original noun or root: book + -let → booklet (= a smaller book); pig + -let → piglet (= a smaller pig).

Let definition: To give permission or opportunity to; allow.

Let us is used in all varieties of speech and writing to introduce a suggestion or a request: Let us consider all the facts before deciding. The contracted form let's occurs mostly in informal speech and …

Definition of let verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

To let is to allow or permit. If you don't prevent your little brother from jumping off the roof into a pile of leaves, you let him do it.

To permit or allow (to be or to do), either actively or passively; grant or afford liberty (to): followed by an infinitive without to: as, to let one do as he pleases; to let slip an opportunity.