Usually means: Grants permission or legal power.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word authorizes:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. authorizes: Merriam-Webster
  2. authorizes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. authorizes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Authorizes, authorizes: Wordnik
  5. authorizes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. authorizes: Wiktionary
  7. authorizes: Dictionary.com
  8. authorizes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. authorizes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. authorizes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. authorizes: Legal dictionary

(Note: See authorize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (authorize)

verb:  (transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.
▸ Also see authorize


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