To authorize is to give official approval or clearance for something. Authorizing can also delegate power to someone.
To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower;
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
A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam.5.
To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower;
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.
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Other Usage ExamplesIf 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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