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Grant

noun
1.
Any monetary aid.
2.
The act of providing a subsidy.  Synonyms: subsidisation, subsidization.
3.
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance.  Synonym: assignment.
4.
Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978).  Synonyms: Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow Grant.
5.
United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986).  Synonym: Cary Grant.
6.
18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885).  Synonyms: Hiram Ulysses Grant, President Grant, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant.
7.
A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business.  Synonym: concession.
8.
A right or privilege that has been granted.
verb
(past & past part. granted; pres. part. granting)
1.
Let have.  Synonym: allow.  "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"
2.
Give as judged due or on the basis of merit.  Synonym: award.  "The jury awarded a million dollars to the plaintiff" , "Funds are granted to qualified researchers"
3.
Be willing to concede.  Synonyms: concede, yield.
4.
Allow to have.  Synonyms: accord, allot.
5.
Bestow, especially officially.  Synonym: give.  "Give a divorce" , "This bill grants us new rights"
6.
Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another.  Synonyms: cede, concede, yield.
7.
Transfer by deed.  Synonym: deed over.



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"Grant" Quotes from Famous Books



... by the belief that his father Amon was ever at hand to guide him with his counsel and assist him in battle. "I give to thee, declared the god, the rebels that they may fall beneath thy sandals, that thou mayest crush the rebellious, for I grant to thee by decree the earth in its length and breadth. The tribes of the West and those of the East are under the place of thy countenance, and when thou goest up into all the strange lands with a joyous heart, there is none who will withstand Thy Majesty, for I am thy guide when ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... are the spiritual things the best things, but many times the spiritual things can be grasped only by letting go and losing out of our hands the earthly things we would love to keep. God loves us too much to grant our prayers for comfort and relief, even when we make them, if he can do it only at spiritual loss to us. He would rather let it be hard for us to live if there is blessing in the hardness, than make it easy for us at the cost of ...
— Making the Most of Life • J. R. Miller

... turnkey to let them have another old umbrella to work at by way of recreation, as the sack-making was rather monotonous; that, if they should be successful in prevailing on him to grant their request, they should work at the umbrella very slowly, so as to give them time to carry out their plan, which was to form a sort of parachute by adding sail-cloth round the margin of the umbrella so as to extend it to twice its circumference. After it should be finished ...
— The Battle and the Breeze • R.M. Ballantyne

... causes of divorce vary and have varied all the way from no divorce for any cause in South Carolina, for only one cause in New York and other States, up to twenty or thirty causes, with that indefinite or "omnibus" clause of "mutual incompatibility," or allowing the courts to grant divorces in the interest of the general peace. Since the efforts of reformers have wiped out the express-omnibus clause from the legislation of all States, the same abuse has crept in under the guise of "cruelty"; ...
— Popular Law-making • Frederic Jesup Stimson

... of the old Rancour against them as a Party which they entertain'd at their first taking Arms, not allowing the return they had made to be any attonement at all for the Crimes they had been guilty of before. 'Tis true they pass'd an Act or Grant of General Pardon, and Oblivion, as in all such Cases is usual, and as without which the other would never ha' come in, or have join'd Powers to form the Restoration they were bringing to pass, but the old Feud of Religion continu'd with this addition, that the Dissenters were Rebels, Murtherers, ...
— The Consolidator • Daniel Defoe


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