Found 3 items, similar to authorize.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: authorize menghalalkan, menguasakan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: authorize authorize v 1: grant authorization or clearance for; “Clear the manuscript for publication”; “The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography” [syn: authorise, pass, clear] 2: give or delegate power or authority to; “She authorized her assistant to sign the papers” [syn: empower, authorise]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Authorize Authorize \Au"thor*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Authorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Authorizing.] [OE. autorize, F. autoriser, fr. LL. auctorizare, authorisare. See Author.] 1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. [1913 Webster] 2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage. [1913 Webster] 3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage. [1913 Webster] 4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report. [1913 Webster] A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. To justify; to furnish a ground for. --Locke. [1913 Webster] To authorize one's self, to rely for authority. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]