grant
granted; granting; grants
You can grant anything from a permanent restraining order to a request for time off, or, if you’re a genie, seven wishes. When you grant something you are letting someone have or do something that they are asking for.
When you grant something, you’re typically fulfilling a request that is not an automatic entitlement. For example, if you order a plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce in a restaurant, when the meal arrives, you wouldn’t say that the chef has been kind enough to grant you the meal; it’s an order that’s been fulfilled. If you ask the chef to make it a vegan dish that doesn’t include chicken stock, however, then you’re making a request that it’s up to the chef to grant — or not.
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let have“grant permission”
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synonyms:
allow
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allow, countenance, let, permit
consent to, give permission
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allow, countenance, let, permit
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allow to have“grant a privilege”
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give
accord by verdict
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enfranchise
grant voting rights
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give
transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
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give
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bestow, especially officially
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transfer by deed
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give as judged due or on the basis of merit“Funds are granted to qualified researchers”
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synonyms:
award
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pension, pension off
grant a pension to
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give
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
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pension, pension off
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give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
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the act of providing a subsidy
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synonyms:
subsidisation, subsidization
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award, awarding
a grant made by a law court
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block grant
a grant of federal money to state and local governments to support social welfare programs
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grant-in-aid
a grant from a central government to a local government
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addiction
(Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master
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allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling
the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
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any monetary aid
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subsidy
a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public
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grant-in-aid
a grant to a person or school for some educational project
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subvention
grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution
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price support
a government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level
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post doc, postdoc, postdoctoral
a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research
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aid, economic aid, financial aid
money to support a worthy person or cause
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(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
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synonyms:
assignment
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apanage, appanage
a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
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land grant
a grant of public land (as to a railway or college)
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transferred possession, transferred property
a possession whose ownership changes or lapses
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apanage, appanage
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a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
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synonyms:
concession
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a right or privilege that has been granted
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right
an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature
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right
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be willing to concede“I grant you this much”
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forgive
stop blaming or grant forgiveness
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condone, excuse
excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with
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absolve, free, justify
let off the hook
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absolve, shrive
grant remission of a sin to
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remit
forgive
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pardon
grant a pardon to
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excuse, pardon
accept an excuse for
Vocabulary lists containing grant
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