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authorisation

authorisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of authorization.

Meaning of authorization

Noun

authorization (countable and uncountable, plural authorizations)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, countable) An act of authorizing.
    • Our proposal thus envisages a new procedure for the authorization of experimental program1966, Education at Berkeley, page 116
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable) The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission.
    • I've got authorization. Call the office and you'll see.
  3. (British, English, Oxford, US, countable) A document giving formal sanction, permission or warrant.
    • Can I see your authorization?
  4. (British, English, Oxford, US) 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.

Forms of authorisation

pluralauthorisations

Words formed from authorisation

Questions about authorisation

What is authorisation the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Authorisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of authorization.

Words near authorisation in the dictionary

  1. authorisable
  2. authorisate
  3. authorisated
  4. authorisates
  5. authorisating
  6. authorisation
  7. authorisations
  8. authorise
  9. authorised
  10. authorised term
  11. authorised terms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: authorisation (page history and authors); authorization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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