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Award   /əwˈɔrd/   Listen
noun
Award  n.  
1.
A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted."Impatient for the award." "An award had been given against."
2.
The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.


verb
Award  v. t.  (past & past part. awarded; pres. part. awarding)  To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. "To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new."


Award  v. i.  To determine; to make an award.





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"Award" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the President and his twelve counsellors, to make wholesome laws, and define crimes, and award punishments. We made laws and regulations respecting personal behaviour, and personal cleanliness; which last we enforced with particular care; for we had some lazy, lifeless, slack twisted, dirty fellows among ...
— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse
... the chamber be cleared."—The train disappeared— "Now call me the chief of the Haram guard"— With Giaffir is none but his only son, And the Nubian awaiting the sire's award. "Haroun—when all the crowd that wait Are passed beyond the outer gate, (Woe to the head whose eye beheld My child Zuleika's face unveiled!) Hence, lead my daughter from her tower—[fc] 40 Her fate is fixed this very hour; Yet ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron
... for organizing and establishing schools of instruction and assembling learned men there from various parts of the world, so that he soon made it a great center and seat of learning, and mankind have been consequently inclined to award to him the honor of having laid the foundations of the vast superstructure which has since grown up on that consecrated spot. Oxford is now a city of ancient and venerable colleges. Its silent streets; its grand quadrangles; ...
— King Alfred of England - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... to found some sort of a yearly award out here at Highacres for the pupil who shows the best ...
— Highacres • Jane Abbott
... melancholy but indignant reclamations of John Banim,—the dark and touching power of Gerald Griffin,—or the unrivalled wit and irresistible drollery of Samuel Lover? Nor can I omit remarking, that amidst the array of great talents to which I allude, the genius of our female writers bore off, by the free award of public opinion, some of the brightest wreaths of Irish literature. It would be difficult indeed, in any country, to name three women who have done more in setting right the character of Ireland and her people, whilst ...
— The Ned M'Keown Stories - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton


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