granting

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of grant.

   The committee is granting access to the archives next week.

   Granting citizenship involves a long review process.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs. After a form of be it carries the progressive (the committee is granting access). Standing alone it is a gerund that still takes a direct object (granting citizenship). Add the and of and you get the noun for the act instead. Because grant can mean accepting a point for argument's sake, the participle can also open a concession: granting that the cost is high, the plan still works.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act or process by which something is formally bestowed or allowed to a recipient.

   The granting of the patent gave the inventor exclusive rights for twenty years.

   Her appeal led to the granting of a full pardon.

   Similaraward, issuing, bestowal, conferral

   Oppositerefusal, denial

   Note

   Here the word behaves as a true noun. It takes the and of (the granting of a pardon) rather than a direct object, and it has a plural, grantings, used for repeated acts of bestowal. Henry Manship's The History of Great Yarmouth (1854) traces the "grantings, revokings, and re-grantings" of a town's liberty. A 1947 hearing before the House Committee on Armed Services speaks of "the grantings of individual export licenses."

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