authorize

authorize has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• v. t.. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
• v. t.. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
• v. t.. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
• v. t.. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
• v. t.. To justify; to furnish a ground for.
• v.. grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
• v.. give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers"