Definition of Authorize

Authorize

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.

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Authorize Quotations

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
William Blackstone

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
Bob Graham

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
Lysander Spooner

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Authorize Translations

authorize in Dutch is machtigen, autoriseren, volmachtigen
authorize in French is autorisons, autorisent, autoriser, autorisez
authorize in Italian is autorizzare
authorize in Portuguese is autorize
authorize in Spanish is facultar

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