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Authorization   /ˌɔθərəzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Authorization

noun
1.
A document giving an official instruction or command.  Synonyms: authorisation, mandate.
2.
The power or right to give orders or make decisions.  Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so.  "Deputies are given authorization to make arrests" , "A place of potency in the state"
3.
Official permission or approval.  Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction.
4.
The act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant.  Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment.






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"Authorization" Quotes from Famous Books



... are demanded for Catholics by the law of self-preservation. A recent Catholic writer correctly says: "There is no doubt that the religious problem to-day is still the Luther problem." "Almost every statement of those religious doctrines which are opposed to Catholic moral teaching find their authorization in ...
— Luther Examined and Reexamined - A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation • W. H. T. Dau

... however, the Catholic sovereigns requested from the pope authorization for the appointment by themselves of inquisitors to root out this heresy. A bull for the purpose was granted them, and on September 27, 1480, the Spanish Inquisition was established at Seville. In January, 1481, ...
— European Background Of American History - (Vol. I of The American Nation: A History) • Edward Potts Cheyney

... prepared. These important surveys, in addition to those before possessed, furnish materials for commencing an accurate map of the Mississippi and its western waters. Some principal rivers, however, remain still to be explored, toward which the authorization of Congress by ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... a controversy shall assume any authority or perform any acts based upon disputed rights without authorization of the Supervisory Committee, such authorization being limited in all cases to the pendency of the controversy and its final settlement and being in no way prejudicial to the rights of the parties. An authorization thus granted by the Supervisory Committee may be modified or ...
— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing

... a message blank from the pilot. With some labor, he composed a request to Terran headquarters on Rigel IX for authorization to spend two million credits on good-will preparations ...
— A Transmutation of Muddles • Horace Brown Fyfe


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