authorize

Verb

Meaning

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.

To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.

To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.

To justify; to furnish a ground for.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

commission brook give allow release issue clear visa otitis sublet intrust vote pass represent accept
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Antonyms

slay bar ban reject deny refuse
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Hypernyms

allow charge let permit appoint countenance

Hyponyms

commission license declare certificate approve sanction

Phrases with the word

authorize access not authorize

Derivatives

authorized authorizing

Examples

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent. Alan Dershowitz

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. Eliot Spitzer

The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is forbidden. Albert Camus

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. Peter Welch

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. Edward Gibbon

Any government whose members commit this crime, or authorize it in their subordinates, has betrayed its function. Simone Weil

Close letter words and terms

authorization key authorization to talk authorization token authorize access authorized authorized absence