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authorizing

authorizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Phrases with authorizing

Questions about authorizing

What is authorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Authorizing is the present participle and gerund of authorize.

Words near authorizing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: authorizing (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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