Allowed to enter (8)

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admitted

'allowed to enter' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for admitted that I've seen before include "Allowed to enter or owned up" , "Owned up or let in" , "Confessed; let in" , "Acknowledged to be true" , "Allowed in or accepted as true" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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