authorize
Grant official approval
To authorize is to give official permission or approval for something to happen.
A manager authorizes expenses, a government authorizes military action, a cardholder authorizes a transaction.
The word carries formal weight—you don't authorize a friend to borrow your pen, but you might authorize a contractor to begin work.
She wasn't authorized to release that information.
An authorized dealer or biography has official sanction from the source.
Grant permission for
- grantBestow or award money
- permitOfficial written authorization
- licenseFormal grant of permission
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
approval · permission · sanction · consent · enable · entitle · warrant · certify
Confirm as true
- ratifyFormally confirm agreement
- endorseGive official approval
- approveFormally accept or authorize
- certifyFormally verify as true
confirm · legalize · formalize · recognize · establish · affirm · sanction · warrant
Formally select or name
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- commissionPayment for services rendered
- assignGive as responsibility
- nominatePropose as candidate
empower · install · invest · name · select · choose · elect · ordain
allow
Grant permission for
clearance · approval · permission · sanction · consent · enable · entitle · warrant · certify · validate
validate
Confirm as true
certify · confirm · legalize · formalize · recognize · establish · affirm · sanction · warrant · uphold
designate
Formally select or name
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- commissionPayment for services rendered
- assignGive as responsibility
nominate · empower · install · invest · name · select · choose · elect · ordain · deputize
delegate
Entrust authority to another
mandate · commission · license · accredit · qualify · equip · capacitate · vest · confer · deputize
approve
Formally accept or authorize
countenance · back · ratify · affirm · validate · condone · greenlight · okay · accept
- approvalsapproved, approve, certification, endorsing, endorsement
- authenticationpassword, login, logout, fingerprint, ID
- governance verbsgovern, rule, reign, legislate, regulate
- approvalapprove, approval rating, agree, accept, thumbs-up
- finalizationfinalize, conclude, close, clinch, seal
- give permissionpermit, allow, approve, consent, grant
authorizedisempower
Remove capacity to act
disenfranchise · disqualify · disbar · disfranchise · exclude
authorizeinvalidate
Make null or void
disapprove · reject · nullify · revoke · rescind
- transit authorityAgency overseeing public transportation
- authority figurePerson wielding official power
- with authority
- voice of authority
- moral authorityInfluence from perceived righteousness
- housing authorityAgency overseeing public residences
authority, authorized, unauthorized, authoritative, authorization, authorizing, authoritarian, authorizes, authorised