The phrase "are allowed to define" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing permissions or rights to establish definitions or meanings of terms or concepts.
Example: "In this project, team members are allowed to define their roles and responsibilities as they see fit."
Alternatives: "have the right to define" or "are permitted to define".
It can no longer be the case that only white voices are allowed to define what is and isn't racist.
Therefore, we are allowed to define the following.
(2) Users are allowed to define each gene's importance in a subnetwork search by setting its score.
If the given rules are not applicable, users are allowed to define their own structures and annotate it with their own dictionary reference using the @dictRef attribute.
The candidates, specialties of universities, are allowed to define their own subdivision abilities and syllabuses according to their situation, which indicates that the CEEAC is more flexible and easier to be obtained for candidates.
In our proposed model, CUs are allowed to define their own priorities, quality of service (QoS) requirements, and anticipate timeframes for the completion of several tasks within the organization.
Consequently, Mr. Waxman argued, Congress should be allowed to define political advertising according to current political standards, and the bill did so.
"Whenever a covert agency is allowed to define the national interest, it ends up with more power than intended".
If that way of campaigning had been allowed to define Euroscepticism, we would have lost catastrophically – and quite rightly and deservedly.
It has always seemed to me that the intolerant blowhards, like Pat Robertson, have been allowed to define the evangelical movement, which is in fact far broader than them.
The fact that some blustery old white men like to throw the odd quote from Horace into their after-dinner speeches shouldn't be allowed to define for everyone what knowing Latin is or can be".
