Authorize

Quick meaning: Authorize is a verb meaning (transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.

Meaning

(transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.

Example Sentences

The judge authorized the wiretapping.

The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.

The soundingness of hearing and voicing constitute an embodied sense of presence and of memory. Voice then authorizes identities as identities authorize voice.

Meese arrived back at the Justice Department at 12:45 p.m. and advised Reynolds, Cooper, and Richardson that the President had authorized him to "get his arms around the Iranian initiative."

Word Forms

• authorizes
• authorizing
• authorized
• authorise
• authourize

Synonyms for authorize

Depending on context, synonyms include license, permit, clear, pass, authorise.

Antonyms for authorize

Common opposites include ban, prohibit, deauthorize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pass, clear, authorise, grant, permission, admit.

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