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Definitions in simple English

authorize Verb

— To authorize someone is to give them power or permission. I will need to authorize you before you step through that gate. — To authorize can be to allow something to be done.

authorize

— verb (= authorise, clear) grant authorization or clearance for Clear the manuscript for publication The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography — verb (= authorise) give or delegate power or authority to She authorized her assistant to sign the papers

Synonyms authorize synonyms

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authorize English » English

empower permit authorise sanction approve allow commission warrant license grant entitle endorse confirm clear certify permission pass let legitimize delegate appoint ratify licence justify invest entrust enable depute countenance charge authorization assign accredit vest take recognize order okay mandate make possible load legitimatize legitimate legalize instruct grant power give credentials to give authority to somebody give a proxy to equivalent

Topics authorize topics

What do people use authorize to talk about?
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Give permission
Social behavior Authority

Exercise authority

Conjugation authorize conjugation

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authorize · verb

Examples authorize examples

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Simple sentences

I authorize my workers to leave early.
We authorize the workers to take company cars home.
You authorize your workers to smoke in the office.
You authorize your children to watch bad movies.
They authorize Muslim workers to leave early in Ramadan.
They authorize their children to play with dirt.
Would you authorize me to record this conversation?

Movie subtitles

I authorize all my bets to be placed on Lusignan not exceeding 2,000 louis.
I want you to authorize me to buy it.
General, if you won't authorize me to go after him I'm afraid I'll have to go anyway.
Did you authorize this?
Authorize a general alarm before it is too late.
Authorize me to not have to be with the operation tomorrow.
They authorize me. to continue to administer all these affairs.
I authorize you to be the agent for the sale of all survivors.
Swear you won't work if we don't authorize it.
Are you gonna authorize it?
Mr. Ramos. I just need your signature to authorize me absent.
You do understand, don't you that even if you are made his legal guardian it'll still be up to me as head of this hospital to authorize his release in your charge.
Yes, sir? Authorize.
They waited until I went blind to authorize these things. Sit down.
You didn't authorize any changes, did you?
Did you, by any chance, authorize a drain? - Of course I didn't.
If it was not the son of his aunt that would authorize the sale.
I, the undersigned, Mayor of Brescello, authorize a chapel to be built on the land near the mill.
And we must authorize bailout funds for these ten people? But I made an offer for them to come over.
I the undersigned, Giuseppe Bottazzi, etcetera authorize my son Walter, who is under age to be married according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church.
Only doctors authorize drugs.
Then you'll authorize us to release her?
If I can't get through to you without a five-minute delay- I gotta authorize all these decisions on my own.
Then authorize me back to the lab!
Authorize them to shoot if necessary.
For months you query request addresses me so that I authorize you to join your father at Irkutsk.
I hope the committee will authorize this.
I repeat that I authorize myself.
I have a list of skilled people who I can authorize you to interview.
But I'll also understand if they decide not to authorize it.
Mr Peres, do you think the government will authorize the plan?
I authorize the transfer to Asclepius of file 51.
My client didn't authorize me to answer this question.
I didn't authorize anyone to tell Hal about the monolith.
Look. I'm not blind to what's going on, but I cannot authorize that kind of action.
She won't authorize a trache.

News and current affairs

Does diversity authorize such brutal deaths and senseless violence against women simply because some supposedly traditional practice allows them to be married before their bodies are ready and denies them health care when they give birth?
But individual countries would orient intervention and economic policies toward defending the equilibrium rate, or, more radically, an international authority might authorize aggressive intervention by trading partners to promote consistency.
British Prime Minister David Cameron came up short when he turned to Parliament to authorize British participation in US strikes against Syria.
His remarks reflect the military's growing frustration with the lack of concrete American support, and seemed designed to intensify pressure on Erdogan to authorize unilateral cross-border operations against PKK bases in northern Iraq.
It did well to force Syria to give up its chemical weapons, and to authorize humanitarian access without the regime's consent.
On October 17, despite pleas for patience and restraint from Iraq and the US, Turkish lawmakers voted 507-19 to authorize Erdogan to order cross-border military strikes into Iraq at any time over the next year.
If the Security Council fails to authorize action, those of us determined to protect Libyan civilians will face a more difficult choice should the violence escalate.
It could authorize the ECB to lend directly to governments that cannot borrow from the markets on reasonable terms until a eurobond regime is introduced.
In the future, conflicts of interest might be handled by mathematical algorithms that authorize or prohibit transactions.
Although UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed the UN Security Council to move rapidly to authorize the proposed joint force, member governments remain deadlocked over its mandate.
The G-20 leaders should authorize the IMF to safeguard international financial stability.
This raises the issue of who should pay for such a mission and, more fundamentally, who can authorize it.
It took the post-Lehman panic for Congress to authorize the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which threw a financial lifeline to banks and the auto industry, among others.
Indeed, these governments promote constitutional reforms that seek to authorize perpetual re-election and supposedly new forms of participation that, in fact, hollow out representative democracy from within.

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