authorization
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Noun[edit]
authorization (countable and uncountable, plural authorizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (countable) An act of authorizing.
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1966, Education at Berkeley, page 116:
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Our proposal thus envisages a new procedure for the authorization of experimental program
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1985 May, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 41, number 5, page 46:
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His authorization of decapitation targeting is incompatible with his theory of limited war
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1990, Horst Ungerer, The European monetary system: developments and perspectives, page 36:
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Its purpose is to govern the authorization of credit institutions and the provision of financial services throughout the EC.
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- (uncountable) The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission.
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I've got authorization. Call the office and you'll see.
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- (countable) A document giving formal sanction, permission or warrant.
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Can I see your authorization?
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- (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.
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We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.
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Holonyms[edit]
- (an act of authorizing): access control
- (permission): access control
- (government): budgeting
Coordinate terms[edit]
- approval (in some legal contexts, authorization is different from approval)
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Translations[edit]
act of authorizing
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state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere
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References[edit]
- “authorization”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “authorization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.