Dictionary Entry
authorize
authorize is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 21 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
- 2transitive verb
To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
- 3transitive verb
To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
- 4transitive verb
To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
- 5transitive verb
To justify; to furnish a ground for.
- 6verb
grant authorization or clearance for
"Clear the manuscript for publication"
"The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
- 7verb
give or delegate power or authority to
"She authorized her assistant to sign the papers"
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