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What does authorize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word authorize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).
  2. (transitive) To permit (something), to sanction or consent to (something).
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These eighteenth-century statutes authorize the arrest of vagrants, vagabonds, and nightwalkers, among others.
I would not have voted to authorize use of force had the intelligence not been as substantial as it was.
However, they cannot authorize projects without the approval of the appropriate ethics committee.
For this group within the Bank, RLS could help to authorize and formalize their own methods and strategies.
Some Democrats who voted to authorize the use of force are now rewriting the past.
The biological weapons treaty requires an affirmative majority vote of the executive to authorize an investigation.

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