authorize

[au·thor·ize]

To authorize is to give official approval or clearance for something. Authorizing can also delegate power to someone.

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To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

Verb
grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"

Verb
give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers"


v. t.
To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

v. t.
To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.

v. t.
To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.

v. t.
To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.

v. t.
To justify; to furnish a ground for.


Authorize

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.
5. To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

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Usage Examples

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

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