authorized

authorize | American Dictionary

authorize
verb[ T ]
us/ˈɔ·θəˌrɑɪz/
to give official permission for something to happen, or to give someone official permission to do something:
The board authorized a new contract.

authorization

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌɔ·θər·əˈzeɪ·ʃən/
[ U ]I can’t issue a check without authorization.

authorize | Business English

authorize
verb[ T ]
(UK alsoauthorise)uk /ˈɔːθəraɪz/us
to give official permission for something to happen, or to give someone official permission to do something:
The Board of Directors has authorized a share buy-back program for up to 60 million shares of the company.
authorize sb to do sthTheir technologies division has been authorised to sell, support, and train customers on the new mobile system.

authorized

adjective(UK alsoauthorised)
authorized retailers and wholesalers

Examples of authorize

authorize
If the latter view is correct, then reasonable but mistaken self-defense does not qualify as an example of legally authorized, private preemption.
The office authorized him to exercise the power of management over the local shoe market on the office's behalf.
It depends on how far participants feel authorized to or confident enough to take such a risk; we will come back to that shortly.
Members of authorizing committees have delegated to members of appropriations committees the power (subject to floor votes) to limit spending.
Directors who were either absent at the meeting authorizing an illegal dividend, or that voted on the record against it, were exempt from liability.
The more contracts a government has to offer, the more incentives private sector actors have to bribe officials authorized to dispense contracts.
Only a privileged few papers were authorized to publish political news at all.
They were both authorized to conduct political negotiations as far as necessary to coordinate the war effort.
They were authorized to install office holders and hand out their corresponding seats on the stuccoed benches in the longhouse structures.
This public status (combined with their public powers) implies that they are authorized to take binding decisions and to levy taxes, thus averting freerider behaviour.
In fact, they do not equally authorize political discourses.
In the process, they made use of newly authorized institutions and discourses, from elections to notions of equality.
Collectivities of this aggregate kind will not be answerable in the same way to words previously authorized or deeds previously per formed.
The federal government is empowered to act on several important health issues, to finance programs, and to authorize sanctions against illegal activities in several fields.
In the home setting, the patient's personal physician makes a house call prior to each perfusion in order to authorize the chemotherapy.
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