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AUTHORIZED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Endowed with authority
Synonyms:
authorised; authorized
Classified under:
Similar:
accredited; commissioned; licenced; licensed (given official approval to act)
approved; sanctioned (established by authority; given authoritative approval)
canonised; canonized; glorified (accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing)
empowered; sceptered; sceptred (invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter)
Also:
lawful (conformable to or allowed by law)
legitimate (of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful)
official (having official authority or sanction)
Attribute:
authorisation; authorization; mandate (a document giving an official instruction or command)
Antonym:
unauthorized (not endowed with authority)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sanctioned by established authority
Example:
the authorized biography
Synonyms:
authorised; authoritative; authorized
Classified under:
Similar:
official (having official authority or sanction)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb authorize
Context examples:
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)
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)
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)
