What does "admission" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.
2. 3.(Law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
3. 4.A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
4. 5.(Eng. Eccl. Law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Shipley. See Admittance.