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Synonyms for authorize
ˈɔ θəˌraɪzau·tho·rize
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
authorize
Synonyms:
cherish, confirm, continue, enact, establish, institute, introduce, legalize, promote, reinstate, renew, repair, restore, revive, set up, support, sustainAntonyms:
abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, destroy, end, end, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, nullify, obliterate, overthrow, prohibit, remove, repeal, reverse, revoke, set aside, stamp out, subvert, supplant, suppress, terminate
Princeton's WordNet
authorize, authorise, pass, clearverb
grant authorization or clearance for
"Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
Synonyms:
run, perish, make, elapse, go past, make pass, lead, top, light up, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, assoil, solve, occur, die, unclutter, clear up, earn, turn over, go, spend, slide by, exculpate, fade, hand, sack up, legislate, happen, egest, empower, authorise, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, transcend, gain, make it, return, crystallise, straighten out, discharge, realize, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, give, fall out, hap, slip by, pull in, go on, sink, eliminate, croak, lapse, enlighten, pass off, net, acquit, give-up the ghost, blow over, take place, crystalise, expire, overhaul, sack, go through, reach, brighten, crystalize, illuminate, communicate, come about, choke, exonerate, pop off, go across, overtake, travel by, glide by, extend, elucidate, decease, take in, fall, pass, pass by, sort out, clear, exit, conk, excrete, buy the farm, crystallize, pass along, bring in, snuff it, go along, surpass, guide, shed light on, realise, pass onempower, authorise, authorizeverb
give or delegate power or authority to
"She authorized her assistant to sign the papers"
Synonyms:
invest, authorise, endue, empower, endow, pass, indue, clear, gift
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authorizeverb
Synonyms:
sanction, justify, warrant, legalize, support by authorityauthorizeverb
Synonyms:
empower, commission, permit, allow, give permission to, give leave to, give authority to
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List of paraphrases for "authorize":
authorise, authorizing, authorizes, allow, permit, authorized, authorising, authorization, empower, approve, permitting
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How to use authorize in a sentence?
I call on this Congress to show the world that we are united in this mission by passing a resolution to authorize the use of force against ISIL.
Whether it is eight or eighty-eight migrants, I do not authorize anyone to enter Italy.
There was a lot of shouting and pacing of the floor and banging of the desk, but after he calmed down, I told him there was something else he had to do, he had to authorize me to tell Attorney General Loretta Lynch that we were doing a one-eighty on Hillary Clinton. No indictment, no matter what.
In May, member states of the World Health Organization had to authorize by resolution an investigation specifically into the virus’ origins. Unbelievably, it was only this week that the investigators were allowed into China. Further, these investigators will largely examine the analyses already done by Chinese scientists, this flawed scope of investigation is the result of months of negotiations over last summer and into the fall, between WHO and China, with no input from the WHO executive board.
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.
Translations for authorize
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- одобрявам, упълномощавам, разрешавамBulgarian
- autoritzarCatalan, Valencian
- autorisieren, berechtigenGerman
- autorizarSpanish
- lubama, volitamaEstonian
- valtuuttaaFinnish
- autorizarGalician
- הסמיךHebrew
- engedélyez, felhatalmaz, feljogosítHungarian
- autorisarInterlingua
- machtigen, vergunnen, authoriserenDutch
- autorizar, deixarPortuguese
- уполномочивать, авторизовать, авторизовывать, одобрить, одобрять, уполномочитьRussian
- ovlástiti, autorizíratiSerbo-Croatian
- pooblastiti, pooblaščatiSlovene
- autorizoj, lejojAlbanian
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