Authorization
Noun
- (uncountable) Permission.I've got authorization. Call the office and you'll see.
- (countable) An act of authorizing.
- 1966, Education at Berkeley, Our proposal thus envisages a new procedure for the authorization of experimental program
- 1985, May, His authorization of decapitation targeting is incompatible with his theory of limited war
- 1990, Horst Ungerer, The European monetary system: developments and perspectives, Its purpose is to govern the authorization of credit institutions and the provision of financial services throughout the EC.
- (countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.Can I see your authorization?
- (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.
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