authorization

Meanings

Plural: authorizations

Noun

• a document giving an official instruction or command
• the power or right to give orders or make decisions
  • "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"
• official permission or approval
• the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant
• An act of authorizing.
• The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission.
• A document giving formal sanction, permission or warrant.
• Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.

Synonyms

authorisation, authority, dominance, empowerment, mandate, potency, sanction, say-so

Related Words

author, authority, unauthorized