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authorizations

authorizations is the plural 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.

Phrases with authorizations

Questions about authorizations

What is authorizations the plural of?
Authorizations is the plural of authorization.

Words near authorizations in the dictionary

  1. authorizate
  2. authorizated
  3. authorizates
  4. authorizating
  5. authorization
  6. authorizations
  7. authorize
  8. authorized
  9. authorized term
  10. authorized terms
  11. Authorized Version

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Adapted from Wiktionary: authorizations (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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