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authorizes

authorizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about authorizes

What is authorizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Authorizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of authorize.

Words near authorizes in the dictionary

  1. authorized terms
  2. Authorized Version
  3. authorizedly
  4. authorizer
  5. authorizers
  6. authorizes
  7. authorizing
  8. authorless
  9. authorlessness
  10. authorlike
  11. authorling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: authorizes (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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