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Definition of Authorize

Authorize

  1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
  2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
  3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
  4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
  5. To justify; to furnish a ground for.

Authorize Quotations

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
Joe Biden

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
Lysander Spooner

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.
Eliot Spitzer

Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court's decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state's borders.
David Limbaugh

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.
Peter Welch
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Authorize Translations

authorize in Dutch is machtigen, autoriseren, volmachtigen
authorize in French is autorisons, autorisent, autoriser, autorisez
authorize in Italian is autorizzare
authorize in Portuguese is autorize
authorize in Spanish is facultar

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