authorization
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɔːθəɹaɪˈzeɪʃn/
- Hyphenation: auth‧or‧i‧zation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]authorization (countable and uncountable, plural authorizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (countable) An act of authorizing.
- 1966, Education at Berkeley, page 116:
- Our proposal thus envisages a new procedure for the authorization of experimental program
- 1985 May, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 41, number 5, page 46:
- His authorization of decapitation targeting is incompatible with his theory of limited war
- 1990, Horst Ungerer, The European monetary system: developments and perspectives, page 36:
- Its purpose is to govern the authorization of credit institutions and the provision of financial services throughout the EC.
- (uncountable) The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission.
- I've got authorization. Call the office and you'll see.
- (countable) A document giving formal sanction, permission or warrant.
- Can I see your authorization?
- (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.
- We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.
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)
Derived terms
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[edit]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.
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