Word Meaning

Meaning of "authorizes" and the crossword clue

- give or grant
- Accredits
- Enables
- Vouches
- To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
- To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
- To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
- To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
- To justify; to furnish a ground for.