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

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. award: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. award: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  12. award: Legal dictionary
  13. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  14. Glossary of Labor Relations Terms (No longer online)
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. award: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AWARD: Acronym Finder
  2. award: Idioms

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

(Note: See awardable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
noun:  (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
noun:  (academia) Funding that has been granted for the conduct of a research project.
noun:  A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
noun:  (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
verb:  (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
verb:  (transitive) To give (an award).
verb:  (transitive) To give (a person) an award.
verb:  (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.

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