authorize

Word family

au·thor·ize (also authorise British English) /ˈɔːθəraɪz $ ˈɒː-/ verb [transitiveT]

LET/ALLOWto give official permission for something 授权，批准，许可

an authorized biography

授权传记

authorize somebody to do something

Napoleon III authorized Haussmann to rebuild Paris.

拿破仑三世授权奥斯曼重建巴黎。

► see thesaurus at allow

Examples from the Corpus

authorize• He said this knowing that the architects were designing for a larger site quite unaware that only a portion had been authorized.• The willingness to bend the rules to authorize a major invasion of civil liberties contrasts sharply with the Spycatcher case.• Woolsey served on the Petaluma City Council when the flood project was authorized after the devastating floods of 1982-83.• As Stuart Marshall observed pointedly, postmodernism authorizes but has yet to create a new populism.• The assistance is in addition to the $ 22 million the president authorized March 4.• Among other matters, the city council authorized more funds for additional police officers.• It may authorize the chairman, or recommend that the chairman of the Select Committee should write to the responsible minister.• Who authorized the decision to close the factory?• Only Congress can authorize the President to declare war.• The state Public Utilities Commission authorized the rates.• His relatives and employees later said they had not authorized those contributions.

authorize somebody to do something• The city council authorized staff to purchase a new computer system.

From Longman Business Dictionary