Found 3 items, similar to Authorizing.
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: Authorizing
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.
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2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as,
to authorize a marriage.
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3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion;
to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
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4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to
warrant; as, to authorize a report.
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A woman's story at a winter's fire,
Authorized by her grandam. --Shak.
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5. To justify; to furnish a ground for. --Locke.
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To authorize one's self, to rely for authority. [Obs.]
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Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other
histories. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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