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# disallow

«disallow» in Mova's school dictionary: **To officially refuse to accept something, especially a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (disallow, disallows, disallowed, disallowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To officially refuse to accept something, especially a goal, point or claim, because it broke a rule. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disallow/#m1)

2) To not permit something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disallow/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In sport, a referee may disallow a goal for offside or a foul. In school and law, a claim or answer can be disallowed if it breaks the rules. In computing, settings can disallow certain apps. Phrases: «disallow a goal», «the goal was disallowed».

### examples

- The referee disallowed the goal for offside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disallow/#x1)
- Phones are disallowed during the exam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disallow/#x2)
- The judge disallowed the late entry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disallow/#x3)
- Our answer was disallowed because we used a calculator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disallow/#x4)
- The app disallows chat for children under 13. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disallow/#x5)
- Fans groaned when the try was disallowed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disallow/#x6)

### note

Regular verb. «Dis-» means not, so disallow means not allow. Most common in the passive: «the goal was disallowed». More formal than «not allow» or «ban».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disallow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disallow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.