authorize
//ˈɔθəɹaɪz//
Forms
- present (v1)
- authorize
- past (v2)
- authorized
- past participle (v3)
- authorized
- present participle
- authorizing
- 3rd person singular
- authorizes
Definitions
1.To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.
- 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.
- The judge authorized the wiretapping.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4565
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English auctorisen, from Old French auctorisier, from Medieval Latin auctōrizāre, from Latin auctor.
See author about the orthography with ⟨h⟩. Doublet of octroy.