"authorize" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈɔθəɹaɪz/ [US], /ˈɑθəɹaɪz/ [US], /ˈɒθəɹaɪz/ [Canada], /ˈɑθəɹaɪz/ [Canada], /ˈɔːθəɹaɪz/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-authorize.ogg Forms: authorizes [present, singular, third-person], authorizing [participle, present], authorized [participle, past], authorized [past]
Rhymes: -aɪz Etymology: From Middle English auctorisen, from Old French auctorisier, from Medieval Latin auctorizare, from Latin auctor. See author about the orthography with . Doublet of octroy. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂ewg-}}, {{inh|en|enm|auctorisen}} Middle English auctorisen, {{der|en|fro|auctorisier}} Old French auctorisier, {{der|en|ML.|auctorizare}} Medieval Latin auctorizare, {{der|en|la|auctor}} Latin auctor, {{doublet|en|octroy}} Doublet of octroy Head templates: {{en-verb}} authorize (third-person singular simple present authorizes, present participle authorizing, simple past and past participle authorized), {{tlb|en|American spelling|Oxford British spelling}} (American spelling, Oxford British English)
  1. (transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to. Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive Synonyms: license, permit, authorise (english: non-Oxford British English), authourize [rare] Translations (to grant power or permission): autorizoj (Albanian), lejoj (Albanian), упаўнава́жваць (upaŭnavážvacʹ) [imperfective] (Belarusian), упаўнава́жыць (upaŭnavážycʹ) [perfective] (Belarusian), упълномощавам (upǎlnomoštavam) (Bulgarian), разрешавам (razrešavam) (Bulgarian), одобрявам (odobrjavam) (Bulgarian), autoritzar (Catalan), 授權 /授权 (shòuquán) (Chinese Mandarin), bemyndige (Danish), autorisere (Danish), befuldmægtige (Danish), machtigen (Dutch), volitama (Estonian), lubama (Estonian), valtuuttaa (Finnish), antaa lupa (Finnish), autoriser (French), autorizar (Galician), autorisieren (German), berechtigen (German), befugen (German), ermächtigen (German), bevollmächtigen (German), הסמיך (hismíkh) (Hebrew), felhatalmaz (Hungarian), feljogosít (Hungarian), meghatalmaz (Hungarian), autorisar (Interlingua), autorizzare (Italian), 公認する (kōnin suru) (Japanese), 許可する (kyoka suru) (Japanese), 허가하다 (heogahada) (Korean), whakamana (Maori), bemyndige (Norwegian), gi fullmakt (Norwegian), autorizar (Occitan), autorizar (Portuguese), deixar (Portuguese), уполномо́чивать (upolnomóčivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), уполномо́чить (upolnomóčitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), авторизо́вывать (avtorizóvyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), авторизова́ть (avtorizovátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), одобря́ть (odobrjátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), одо́брить (odóbritʹ) [perfective] (Russian), autorizírati [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), ovlástiti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), pooblastiti [perfective] (Slovene), pooblaščati [imperfective] (Slovene), autorizar (Spanish), auktorisera (Swedish), bemyndiga (Swedish), befullmäktiga (Swedish), уповнова́жувати (upovnovážuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), уповнова́жити (upovnovážyty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), awdurdodi (Welsh), אויטאָריזירן (oytorizirn) (Yiddish) Translations (to permit): antaa lupa (Finnish), myöntää lupa (Finnish), sallia (Finnish), autoriser (French), eine Erlaubnis erteilen für (German), eine Befugnis erteilen für (German), engedélyez (Hungarian), autorizzare (Italian), 許可する (kyoka suru) (Japanese), whakamana (Maori), awdurdodi (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-authorize-en-verb-VpXtyNEP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize, Entries with translation boxes, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations, Oxford spellings, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Albanian translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Interlingua translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Welsh translations, Terms with Yiddish translations Derived forms: authorizable, authorization, authorisation, authorizer, disauthorize, exauthorize, misauthorize, preauthorize, reauthorize, unauthorize, unauthorized, unauthorised

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1995, Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye, Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair, →ISBN, page 305:",
          "text": "Meese arrived back at the Justice Department at 12:45 p.m. and advised Reynolds, Cooper, and Richardson that the President had authorized him to \"get his arms around the Iranian initiative.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Patricia Kruth, Henry Stobart, Sound, page 184:",
          "text": "The soundingness of hearing and voicing constitute an embodied sense of presence and of memory. Voice then authorizes identities as identities authorize voice.",
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        "(transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to."
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          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "roman": "odobrjavam",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "autoritzar"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shòuquán",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "授權 /授权"
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        {
          "code": "da",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "bemyndige"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "autorisere"
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        {
          "code": "da",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "befuldmægtige"
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "volitama"
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "antaa lupa"
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "berechtigen"
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "kōnin suru",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "公認する"
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kyoka suru",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "許可する"
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "heogahada",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "허가하다"
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        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "whakamana"
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          "code": "no",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "code": "no",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "code": "oc",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "autorizar"
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "word": "deixar"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "upolnomóčivatʹ",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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          "word": "уполномо́чивать"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "upolnomóčitʹ",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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            "perfective"
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          "word": "уполномо́чить"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "avtorizóvyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "авторизо́вывать"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "avtorizovátʹ",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "авторизова́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "odobrjátʹ",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "одобря́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "odóbritʹ",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "uk",
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          "roman": "upovnovážyty",
          "sense": "to grant power or permission",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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          "code": "cy",
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          "code": "yi",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "code": "fr",
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        },
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "to permit",
          "word": "eine Erlaubnis erteilen für"
        },
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          "code": "de",
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          "code": "hu",
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          "code": "it",
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        "Terms with Dutch translations",
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        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
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        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Interlingua translations",
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        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian translations",
        "Terms with Occitan translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
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        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
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        "(transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to."
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      "code": "sq",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "autorizoj"
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      "code": "sq",
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      "word": "lejoj"
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      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "upaŭnavážvacʹ",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "упаўнава́жваць"
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      "code": "be",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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      "word": "одобрявам"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "autoritzar"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shòuquán",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "授權 /授权"
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    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "bemyndige"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
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      "code": "da",
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      "word": "befuldmægtige"
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "machtigen"
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      "code": "et",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "volitama"
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      "word": "lubama"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "valtuuttaa"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "antaa lupa"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "word": "autorizar"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "autorisieren"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "berechtigen"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "befugen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "ermächtigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "bevollmächtigen"
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      "code": "he",
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      "word": "הסמיך"
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      "word": "felhatalmaz"
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      "word": "feljogosít"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "meghatalmaz"
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      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "autorisar"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "autorizzare"
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    {
      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "kōnin suru",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "公認する"
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    {
      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "kyoka suru",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "許可する"
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    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "heogahada",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "허가하다"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "whakamana"
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      "code": "no",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "bemyndige"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "gi fullmakt"
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      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "autorizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "autorizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "deixar"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "upolnomóčivatʹ",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "уполномо́чивать"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "upolnomóčitʹ",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "уполномо́чить"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "avtorizóvyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "авторизо́вывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "авторизова́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "odobrjátʹ",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "одобря́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "odóbritʹ",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "одо́брить"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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      "word": "autorizírati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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      "word": "ovlástiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "pooblastiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "pooblaščati"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "autorizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "auktorisera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "bemyndiga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "befullmäktiga"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "upovnovážuvaty",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "уповнова́жувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "upovnovážyty",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "уповнова́жити"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "awdurdodi"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "oytorizirn",
      "sense": "to grant power or permission",
      "word": "אויטאָריזירן"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "antaa lupa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "myöntää lupa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "sallia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "autoriser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "eine Erlaubnis erteilen für"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "eine Befugnis erteilen für"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "engedélyez"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "autorizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kyoka suru",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "許可する"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "whakamana"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to permit",
      "word": "awdurdodi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "authorize"
}

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