causative (more or less) "consent"

[Mark Mandel]

I noticed an apparent causative use of "permit", meaning either "get a
permit for X" or "grant a permit for X", on another mailing list. I asked
about it and still haven't gotten a reply, but my question elicited a
similar usage, which I quote below. The writer is in Australia.

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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:10:12 +1000

I've found a similar one this week in my new job.  I work as a policy
officer in a Breast cancer screening program.  I've begun doing site visits
to see what people really do and the new word I learnt for  the process for
getting women's agreement to testing  through each stage of screening is
called "consenting" as in 'Have you consented Mrs So and So yet?' or people
asking me if I wanted to 'sit in on a consenting'.

For your linguistic enjoyment!
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                  Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist
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