authorize
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- authorise (non-Oxford British English)
- authourize (rare)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English auctorisen, from Old French auctorisier, from Medieval Latin auctorizare, from Latin auctor. See author about the orthography with <h>. Doublet of octroy.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔθəɹaɪz/, /ˈɑθəɹaɪz/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɒθəɹaɪz/, /ˈɑθəɹaɪz/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːθəɹaɪz/
- Rhymes: -aɪz
Verb
[edit]authorize (third-person singular simple present authorizes, present participle authorizing, simple past and past participle authorized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.
- Synonyms: license, permit
- Antonyms: ban, prohibit, deauthorize
- The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
- The judge authorized the wiretapping.
- 1986, Paul E. Szarmach, “Introduction”, in Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 2:
- The term “Alfredian” then is not univocal; it can mean, depending on the argument, anything from Alfred setting down words by himself, to Alfred working with a little or a lot of help in writing or dictating, or to Alfred authorizing another or others to act in his name with degrees of his personal involvement varying from much to nil.
- 1995, Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye, Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair, →ISBN, page 305:
- 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."
- 2007, Patricia Kruth, Henry Stobart, Sound, page 184:
- The soundingness of hearing and voicing constitute an embodied sense of presence and of memory. Voice then authorizes identities as identities authorize voice.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to grant power or permission
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to permit
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