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authorise

authorise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of authorize.

Meaning of authorize

Verb

authorize (third-person singular simple present authorizes, present participle authorizing, simple past and past participle authorized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, ambitransitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.
    • The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
    Synonyms:
    license, permit

Forms of authorise

third-person singular presentauthorises
present participleauthorising
past participleauthorised
pastauthorised

Words formed from authorise

Questions about authorise

What is authorise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Authorise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of authorize.

Words near authorise in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: authorise (page history and authors); authorize (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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