AUTHORIZE
Dictionary entry overview: What does authorize mean?
• AUTHORIZE (verb)
The verb AUTHORIZE has 2 senses:
1. grant authorization or clearance for
2. give or delegate power or authority to
Familiarity information: AUTHORIZE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AUTHORIZE (verb)
Meaning:
Grant authorization or clearance for
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
authorize; authorise; clear; pass
Context examples:
Clear the manuscript for publication / The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography
Hypernyms (to "authorize" is one way to...):
allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "authorize"):
approbate (approve or sanction officially)
certificate (authorize by certificate)
approve; O.K.; okay; sanction (give sanction to)
declare (authorize payments of)
certify; licence; license (authorize officially)
commission (charge with a task)
formalise; formalize; validate (declare or make legally valid)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Meaning:
Give or delegate power or authority to
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
authorise; empower; authorize
Context example:
She authorized her assistant to sign the papers
Hypernyms (to "authorize" is one way to...):
appoint; charge (assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "authorize"):
entitle (give the right to)
sanction (give authority or permission to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
