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Authorization   /ˌɔθərəzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Authorization

noun
1.
A document giving an official instruction or command.  Synonyms: authorisation, mandate.
2.
The power or right to give orders or make decisions.  Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so.  "Deputies are given authorization to make arrests" , "A place of potency in the state"
3.
Official permission or approval.  Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction.
4.
The act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant.  Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment.






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"Authorization" Quotes from Famous Books



... signed the telegram at his Majesty's command, and I read it out to my guests,[36] whose dejection was so great that they turned away from food and drink. On a repeated examination of the document I lingered upon the authorization of his Majesty, which included a command, immediately to communicate Benedetti's fresh demand and its rejection both to our ambassadors and to the press. I put a few questions to Moltke as to the extent of his confidence in the state of our preparations, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... Mass in the house of an Irishman named William Davis, who had been transported for making pikes for the insurgents in the days of '98, and then, on the first opportunity that presented itself, he sought the authorization of the colonial governor to exercise the functions of his sacred ministry. Far from hospitable was the reception accorded him by Governor Macquarie. The priest was told, with the bluntness characteristic of British officialdom, that the presence of no "popish missionary" would ...
— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox

... father was a German surgeon. They were scandalized to see the Czar, like another Gregory Otrepief, expose himself to blows in his military "amusements." The lower orders were indignant at the abolition of the long beards and national costume, and the raskolniks[1] at the authorization of "the ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 • Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson

... purchasing of farm commodities for their own use came to a head in a request to the Provincial Government for the widening of charter powers in order that the Association might organize a co-operative trading department. In 1913 authorization to act as a marketing and purchasing agent for registered co-operative associations was granted and next year the privilege was extended to include local ...
— Deep Furrows • Hopkins Moorhouse

... the fundamental law of an entirely new German union. Within Germany proper there were recognized to be, when the Congress had completed its work of readjustment, thirty-eight states, of widely varying size, importance, and condition. Under authorization of the Congress, these states were now organized, not into an empire with a common sovereign, but into a Bund, or Confederation, whose sole central organ was a Bundestag, or Diet, sitting at Frankfort-on-the-Main ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg


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