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authorised

authorised is the alternative spelling of authorized.

authorised is the simple past and past participle of authorise.

Meaning of authorized

Adjective

authorized (not comparable)

  1. Explicitly allowed.
    • authorized access
    Synonyms:
    permitted, allowed

Phrases with authorised

Questions about authorised

What is authorised the alternative spelling of?
Authorised is the alternative spelling of authorized.

Words near authorised in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: authorised (page history and authors); authorized (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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