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English

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Alternative forms

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• authorisation (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

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From authorize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɔːθəɹaɪˈzeɪʃn/
• Hyphenation: auth‧or‧i‧zation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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English Wikipedia has an article on:authorizationWikipedia

authorization (countable and uncountable, plural authorizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (countable) An act of authorizing. Synonyms: assent, consent, sanction; see also Thesaurus:approval
   • 1966, Education at Berkeley, page 116:Our proposal thus envisages a new procedure for the authorization of experimental program
   • 1985 May, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 41, number 5, page 46:His authorization of decapitation targeting is incompatible with his theory of limited war
   • 1990, Horst Ungerer, The European monetary system: developments and perspectives, page 36:Its purpose is to govern the authorization of credit institutions and the provision of financial services throughout the EC.
   • 2002, Teresa Plowright, Dreams of an Unseen Planet:She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen, quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.
2. (uncountable) The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission. Synonyms: authority, leave, sanction; see also Thesaurus:permission I've got authorization. Call the office and you'll see.
3. (countable) A document giving formal sanction, permission or warrant. Can I see your authorization?
4. (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose. We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.

Holonyms

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• (an act of authorizing): access control
• (permission): access control
• (government): budgeting

Coordinate terms

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• approval (in some legal contexts, authorization is different from approval)

Derived terms

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• atomic authorization
• deauthorization
• misauthorization
• postauthorization
• preauthorization
• prior authorization
• reauthorization

Related terms

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• author
• authority
• unauthorized

Translations

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Albanian: autorizim (sq) m Bashkir: рөхсәт (röxsət) Belarusian: дазво́л m (dazvól), дазвале́нне n (dazvaljénnje), аўтарыза́цыя f (awtaryzácyja) Bulgarian: упълномоща́ване n (upǎlnomoštávane) Catalan: autorització (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 授權 / 授权 (zh) (shòuquán) Czech: povolování n Dutch: machtiging (nl) f, volmacht (nl) f, vergunning (nl) f, autorisatie (nl) f Estonian: volitus (et) Finnish: valtuutus (fi), valtuuttaminen (fi), oikeuttaminen (fi), oikeutus (fi), auktorisointi (fi) French: autorisation (fr) Georgian: ნებართვა (nebartva); ავტორიზაცია (avṭorizacia) German: Ermächtigung (de) f Greek: εξουσιοδότηση (el) f (exousiodótisi) Hebrew: הַסְמָכָה f (hasmakha) Hindi: अनुज्ञा (hi) f (anujñā) Hungarian: felhatalmazás (hu) Japanese: 許可 (ja) (きょか, kyoka), 認可 (ja) (にんか, ninka) Kazakh: авторландыру (avtorlandyru) Khmer: អនុញ្ញាត (km) (ʼaʼnuññaat) Korean: 허가(許可) (ko) (heoga), 인가(認可) (ko) (in'ga) Māori: whakamanatanga Norwegian: Bokmål: autorisasjon m Polish: upoważnienie (pl) n, autoryzacja (pl) f (in computing) Portuguese: autorização (pt) f Romanian: autorizare (ro) f Russian: разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije), авториза́ция (ru) f (avtorizácija), уполномо́чивание (ru) n (upolnomóčivanije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ауториза́ција f Latin: autorizácija (sh) f Spanish: autorización (es) f Turkish: izin (tr), otorizasyon Ottoman Turkish: اذن (izn, izin), اجازت (icazet), رخصت (ruhsat), دستور (düstur), مساعده (müsâʼade) Ukrainian: до́звіл (uk) m (dózvil), дозволя́ння n (dozvoljánnja), авториза́ція f (avtoryzácija), уповнова́жування n (upovnovážuvannja) Yiddish: אויטאָריזירונג f (oytorizirung)

state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere

Albanian: autorizim (sq) m Bulgarian: са́нкция (bg) f (sánkcija), одобре́ние (bg) n (odobrénie) Catalan: autorització (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 授權 / 授权 (zh) (shòuquán) Czech: povolení (cs) n Danish: autorisation (da) c Dutch: machtiging (nl) f, volmacht (nl) f Estonian: volitus (et) Finnish: lupa (fi) Georgian: please add this translation if you can Greek: εξουσιοδότηση (el) f (exousiodótisi) Hindi: अधिकृत (hi) (adhikŕt) Hungarian: meghatalmazás (hu) Italian: autorizzazione (it) Polish: upoważnienie (pl) n, umocowanie n, zezwolenie (pl) n Portuguese: autorização (pt) f Romanian: autorizație (ro) f Russian: са́нкция (ru) f (sánkcija), полномо́чие (ru) n (polnomóčije), о́рдер (ru) m (órder), одобре́ние (ru) n (odobrénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ауториза́ција f Latin: autorizácija (sh) f Spanish: autorización (es) f Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: اذن (izn) Ukrainian: уповнова́ження n (upovnovážennja)

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Romanian: (please verify) împuternicire (ro) f

References

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• “authorization”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “authorization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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