Authorize
verb — past tense: authorized ; past participle: authorized ; present participle: authorizing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To give the power or right to do something, to allow by law, approve, to empower, to make legal) អនុញ្ញាត, ឲ្យអំណាច
Example: Sothun was authorized to buy the supplies for the office, The legislature authorized funds for roads, New Year pranks are authorized by tradition. - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) អនុញ្ញាត, យល់ព្រម
ENGLISH MEANING
verb — past tense: authorized ; past participle: authorized ; present participle: authorizing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- (TRANSITIVE) To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.
- 5.
- (TRANSITIVE) To justify; to furnish a ground for.