Library / English Dictionary

AUTHORIZE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grant authorization or clearance for

Example:

The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography

Synonyms:

authorise; authorize; clear; pass

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

Derivation:

authorization (official permission or approval)

authorizer (an authority who authorizes (people or actions))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give or delegate power or authority to

Example:

She authorized her assistant to sign the papers

Synonyms:

authorise; authorize; empower

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

Derivation:

authorization (the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Currently authorized under 42 U.S. Code 284 (c)(3), Section 405(c)(3) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended.

(NCI Special Emphasis Panel, NCI Thesaurus)

An individual who is authorized under applicable State or local law to consent on behalf of a child or incapable person to general medical care including participation in clinical research.

(Guardian, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of company, authorized only in certain states, whose owners and managers receive the limited liability and (usually) tax benefits of an S Corporation without having to conform to the S corporation restrictions.

(Limited Liability Partnership, NCI Thesaurus)

The EUA is a statutory authority allowing the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to authorize the introduction into interstate commerce and the use of unapproved medical products or authorize unapproved uses of approved medical products intended for use in an actual or potential emergency, during an emergency declared under Section 564(b)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act), as amended by the Project BioShield Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-276).

(Emergency Use Authorization, Food and Drug Administration)

An administrative activity defined at a global library level that is an action in which an authorized party at a designated study site dispenses or receives a study agent to/from a study subject, though as a defined activity, no actual study subject is identified.

(Defined Study Agent Transfer, NCI Thesaurus)

An authorized person who is appointed to audit and officially inspect the warehousing, prescribing, dispensing, distribution, administration and documentation practices related to utilization of investigational agent(s) within a clinical study or/and institution, in order to confirm the strict drug(s) accountability and to ensure patients safety and the clinical site compliance with protocol(s) and federal drug laws and regulations.

(Agent Inspector, NCI Thesaurus)

The event which it authorized soon followed: Henry and Catherine were married, the bells rang, and everybody smiled; and, as this took place within a twelvemonth from the first day of their meeting, it will not appear, after all the dreadful delays occasioned by the general's cruelty, that they were essentially hurt by it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)