I cannot authorize Ken to go abroad.
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Authorize
//ˈɔθəɹaɪz//
Synonyms for "authorize" (124 found)
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Related words (62)
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More general
6 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
12 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
69 translations across 31 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- autorizoj verb (to grant power or permission)
- lejoj verb (to grant power or permission)
Belarusian
2 entries- упаўнава́жваць verb (to grant power or permission)
- упаўнава́жыць verb (to grant power or permission)
Bulgarian
3 entries- одобрявам verb (to grant power or permission)
- разрешавам verb (to grant power or permission)
- упълномощавам verb (to grant power or permission)
Catalan
1 entries- autoritzar verb (to grant power or permission)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 授權 /授权 verb (to grant power or permission)
Danish
3 entries- autorisere verb (to grant power or permission)
- befuldmægtige verb (to grant power or permission)
- bemyndige verb (to grant power or permission)
Dutch
1 entries- machtigen verb (to grant power or permission)
Estonian
2 entries- lubama verb (to grant power or permission)
- volitama verb (to grant power or permission)
Finnish
4 entries- antaa lupa verb (to grant power or permission)
- antaa lupa verb (to permit)
- myöntää lupa verb (to permit)
- sallia verb (to permit)
French
2 entries- autoriser verb (to grant power or permission)
- autoriser verb (to permit)
Galician
1 entries- autorizar verb (to grant power or permission)
German
4 entries- autorisieren verb (to grant power or permission)
- befugen verb (to grant power or permission)
- berechtigen verb (to grant power or permission)
- bevollmächtigen verb (to grant power or permission)
Hebrew
1 entries- הסמיך verb (to grant power or permission)
Hungarian
4 entries- engedélyez verb (to permit)
- felhatalmaz verb (to grant power or permission)
- feljogosít verb (to grant power or permission)
- meghatalmaz verb (to grant power or permission)
Interlingua
1 entries- autorisar verb (to grant power or permission)
Italian
2 entries- autorizzare verb (to grant power or permission)
- autorizzare verb (to permit)
Japanese
3 entries- 公認する verb (to grant power or permission)
- 許可する verb (to grant power or permission)
- 許可する verb (to permit)
Korean
1 entries- 허가하다 verb (to grant power or permission)
Latin
1 entries- auctōrizō verb (to grant power or permission)
Māori
2 entries- whakamana verb (to grant power or permission)
- whakamana verb (to permit)
Norwegian
2 entries- bemyndige verb (to grant power or permission)
- gi fullmakt verb (to grant power or permission)
Occitan
1 entries- autorizar verb (to grant power or permission)
Portuguese
2 entries- autorizar verb (to grant power or permission)
- deixar verb (to grant power or permission)
Russian
4 entries- авторизо́вывать verb (to grant power or permission)
- авторизова́ть verb (to grant power or permission)
- одо́брить verb (to grant power or permission)
- одобря́ть verb (to grant power or permission)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- autorizírati verb (to grant power or permission)
- ovlástiti verb (to grant power or permission)
Slovene
2 entries- pooblastiti verb (to grant power or permission)
- pooblaščati verb (to grant power or permission)
Spanish
1 entries- autorizar verb (to grant power or permission)
Swedish
3 entries- auktorisera verb (to grant power or permission)
- befullmäktiga verb (to grant power or permission)
- bemyndiga verb (to grant power or permission)
Ukrainian
2 entries- уповнова́жити verb (to grant power or permission)
- уповнова́жувати verb (to grant power or permission)
Welsh
2 entries- awdurdodi verb (to grant power or permission)
- awdurdodi verb (to permit)
Yiddish
1 entries- אויטאָריזירן verb (to grant power or permission)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
I authorize my workers to leave early.
Source: tatoeba (1709222)
We authorize the workers to take company cars home.
Source: tatoeba (1709225)
You authorize your workers to smoke in the office.
Source: tatoeba (1709227)
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