authorizes
UK spellingauthorises
- 1Third-person singular simple present of authorize.
The board authorizes spending only after reviewing each proposal in detail.
Federal law authorizes the agency to inspect any facility without warning.
Note
A present-tense form that always comes with an object, because permission has to be granted for something or to someone. It takes two patterns: a direct object for what is allowed (the board authorizes spending), or a person followed by a to-infinitive for who may act (the law authorizes an agency to inspect). The z spelling serves both American usage and the Oxford style of British English.
authorizes is a form of authorize
authorize, verb: To grant someone the permission or power needed to do something; to formally permit or approve it. Full entry
- Forms
- authorizeauthorizes he/she/itauthorizing -ing formauthorized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- authorize → authorizes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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