AUTHORIZATION Synonyms

• formal and explicit approval

• a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards

• official permission or approval

• the act of final authorization

• give sanction to

• give authority or permission to

• give religious sanction to, such as through an oath

• the formal act of approving

• a feeling of liking something or someone good

• acceptance as satisfactory

• a message expressing a favorable opinion

• the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them

• vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

• permission to proceed

• permission for something to happen

• give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to

• a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)

• a speech seconding a motion

• formal and explicit approval

• a signature that validates something

• the act of endorsing

• a legal document giving official permission to do something

• freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)

• excessive freedom; lack of due restraint

• the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

• authorize officially

• approval to do something

• the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

• a document giving an official instruction or command

• the power or right to give orders or make decisions

• official permission or approval

• the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

• superior development of one side of the body

• the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

• the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not

• the power or right to give orders or make decisions

• the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

• a document giving an official instruction or command

• a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves

• the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

• assign under a mandate

• make mandatory

• assign authority to

• the power or right to give orders or make decisions

• capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects

• the inherent capacity for coming into being

• the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse

• one chap's arbitrary assertion

• an authoritative declaration

• the power or right to give orders or make decisions