authorizing
- 1Present participle and gerund of authorize.
The committee is authorizing additional funds for the relief effort.
Authorizing access to classified files requires a senior officer's signature.
Note
The -ing form does two jobs. After a form of be it builds the progressive (the committee is authorizing), and on its own it names the act itself, as the subject or object of a sentence. Either way it stays transitive and takes its object directly: authorizing funds, authorizing an officer to sign. The -ize spelling is standard in US usage and is also the Oxford choice in British English.
authorizing 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 → authorizing: drop the e, add -ing
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