About The Word Authorize
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Authorize
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What's The Definition Of Authorize?
[v] grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
[v] give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers" Synonyms | Synonyms for Authorize: authorise | authorise | clear | empower | pass Related Terms | Find terms related to Authorize: accept | accredit | affirm | allow | amen | appoint | approve | arm | assign | authenticate | autograph | certificate | certify | charge | charter | clothe | clothe with power | commission | commit | confirm | consent to | consign | constitute | cosign | countenance | countersign | declare lawful | decree | delegate | demand | depute | deputize | detach | detail | devolute | devolve | devolve upon | dictate | empower | enable | enact | endorse | endow | endue | enfranchise | entitle | entrust | establish | formulate | franchise | give in charge | give leave | give official sanction | give permission | give power | give the go-ahead | give the imprimatur | give thumbs up | impose | initial | invest | lay down | legalize | legislate | legitimate | legitimatize | legitimize | license | make a regulation | make legal | make obligatory | mission | notarize | OK | okay | ordain | pass | pass on | pass upon | patent | permit | post | prescribe | privilege | put in force | ratify | regulate | require | rubber stamp | sanction | say amen to | seal | second | send out | set | sign | sign and seal | subscribe to | support | swear and affirm | swear to | transfer | undersign | underwrite | validate | visa | vise | warrant See Also | allow | appoint | approbate | approve | certificate | certify | charge | commission | countenance | declare | entitle | formalise | formalize | let | licence | license | O.K. | okay | permit | sanction | sanction | validate Authorize In Webster's Dictionary \Au"thor*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Authorized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Authorizing}.] [OE. autorize, F. autoriser, fr.
LL. auctorizare, authorisare. See {Author}.]
1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give
a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners
to settle a boundary.
2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as,
to authorize a marriage.
3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion;
to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to
warrant; as, to authorize a report.
A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by
her grandam. --Shak.
5. To justify; to furnish a ground for. --Locke.
{To authorize one's self}, to rely for authority. [Obs.]
Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other
histories. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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