Usually means: Grant official permission or approval.
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  1. authorise: Merriam-Webster
  2. authorise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. authorise: Vocabulary.com
  4. authorise: Wordnik
  5. authorise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. authorise: Wiktionary
  7. authorise: Dictionary.com
  8. authorise: Rhymezone
  9. authorise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. authorise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. authorise: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. authorise: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of authorize. [(transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.]

Similar:
clear, authorize, pass, authorisation, approve, enable, undertake, allow, compel, more...

Opposite:
prohibit, forbid, ban, disallow, veto

Colors:
    emerald,     teal,     forest green,     royal blue,     burgundy, more...

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Similar:
clear, authorize, pass, authorisation, approve, enable, undertake, allow, compel, more...

Opposite:
prohibit, forbid, ban, disallow, veto

Colors:
    emerald,     teal,     forest green,     royal blue,     burgundy, more...



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