Usually means: Grant official permission or approval.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word authorize:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. authorize: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. authorize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. authorize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. authorize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. authorize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Authorize, authorize: Wordnik
  7. authorize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. authorize: Wiktionary
  9. authorize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. authorize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. authorize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. authorize: Dictionary.com
  13. authorize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. authorize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Authorize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Authorize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. authorize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. authorize: Rhymezone
  19. Authorize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. authorize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. authorize: Free Dictionary
  22. authorize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. authorize: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. authorize: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. authorize: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. authorize: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. authorize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. authorize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. authorize: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. authorize: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.

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