authorized
Speech parts
1. authorized - Adjective
2. authorized - Verb
4. authorized - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Authorize
Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.
Sanctioned by authority.
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Examples
I was authorized to do everything that I did.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain-that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. It is a way of forcing women in a certain direction.
President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale.