# granted

Pronunciation: US say "GRAN-tid" /ˈɡɹæntɪd/; UK say "GRAHN-tid" /ˈɡɹɑːntɪd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of grant. — simple past and past participle of grant
   - Simple: Past tense of grant. Use this form for something that was given or allowed in the past.
   - _The court granted the appeal after months of deliberation._
   - _He was granted citizenship after a long and demanding process._

## Adverb

2. Used to concede that a point is true, often just before introducing a contrasting or competing consideration.
   - Simple: Used to admit that something is true before you say something that goes against it.
   - _Granted, the proposal has flaws, but it remains the most practical option on the table._
   - _The evidence is thin, granted, yet the overall pattern is hard to ignore._

## Adjective

3. Used to mark a premise that is accepted as true at the outset of a syllogistic argument.
   - Simple: Used to set out something accepted as true at the start of a step-by-step argument.
   - _Granted that all mammals are warm-blooded, and that whales are mammals, whales must be warm-blooded._
   - _Granted that the witnesses agree on the time, the suspect could not have been at the scene._

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