authorization

English

Alternative forms

• authorisation (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English authorize

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English authorization

From authorize + -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɔːθəɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˌoːθəɹɑjˈzɛjʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US)
  • (without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˌɔθəɹəˈzeɪʃən/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˌɑθəɹəˈzeɪʃən/
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌoːθəɹɑeˈzæɪʃən/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌɔθəɾaɪˈzeʃən/
• (Wales, without the pane–pain merger) IPA^(key): /ˌɔːθəɾaɪˈzeːʃən/
• Hyphenation: auth‧or‧i‧zation

Noun

authorization (countable and uncountable, plural authorizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (countable) An act of authorizing.

   Synonyms: assent, consent, sanction; see also Thesaurus:approval

   • 1966, Education at Berkeley, page 116:

     Our proposal thus envisages a new procedure for the authorization of experimental program

   • 1985 May, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 41, number 5, page 46:

     His authorization of decapitation targeting is incompatible with his theory of limited war

   • 1990, Horst Ungerer, The European monetary system: developments and perspectives, page 36:

     Its purpose is to govern the authorization of credit institutions and the provision of financial services throughout the EC.

   • 2002, Teresa Plowright, Dreams of an Unseen Planet:

     She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen, quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.

2. (uncountable) The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission.

   Synonyms: authority, leave, sanction; see also Thesaurus:permission

   I've got authorization. Call the office and you'll see.

3. (countable) A document giving formal sanction, permission or warrant.

   Can I see your authorization?

4. (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.

   We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.

Holonyms

• (an act of authorizing): access control
• (permission): access control
• (government): budgeting

Coordinate terms

• approval (in some legal contexts, authorization is different from approval)

Derived terms

• atomic authorization
• deauthorization
• misauthorization
• postauthorization
• preauthorization
• prior authorization
• reauthorization

Related terms

• author
• authority
• unauthorized

Translations

act of authorizing

• Albanian: autorizim (sq) m
• Bashkir: рөхсәт (rüxsät)
• Belarusian: дазво́л m (dazvól), дазвале́нне n (dazvaljénnje), аўтарыза́цыя f (awtaryzácyja)
• Bulgarian: упълномоща́ване n (upălnomoštávane), авторизация f (avtorizacija)
• Catalan: autorització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 授權 / 授权 (zh) (shòuquán)

• Czech: povolování n, autorizace f
• Danish: autorisering n
• Dutch: machtiging (nl) f, volmacht (nl) f, vergunning (nl) f, autorisatie (nl) f
• Estonian: volitus (et)
• Finnish: valtuutus (fi), valtuuttaminen (fi), oikeuttaminen (fi), oikeutus (fi), auktorisointi (fi)
• French: autorisation (fr)
• Georgian: ნებართვა (nebartva); ავტორიზაცია (avṭorizacia)
• German: Ermächtigung (de) f, Autorisation (de) f, Autorisierung (de)
• Greek: εξουσιοδότηση (el) f (exousiodótisi)
• Hebrew: הַסְמָכָה f (hasmakha)
• Hindi: अनुज्ञा (hi) f (anujñā)
• Hungarian: felhatalmazás (hu), autorizáció sg
• Indonesian: otorisasi (id)
• Japanese: 許可 (ja) (きょか, kyoka), 認可 (ja) (にんか, ninka)
• Kazakh: авторландыру (avtorlandıruw)
• Khmer: អនុញ្ញាត (km) (ʼaʼnuññaat)
• Korean: 허가(許可) (ko) (heoga), 인가(認可) (ko) (in'ga)
• Māori: whakamanatanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: autorisasjon m

• Occitan: autorizacion (oc)
• Polish: upoważnienie (pl) n, autoryzacja (pl) f (in computing)
• Portuguese: autorização (pt) f
• Romanian: autorizare (ro) f, autorizație (ro)
• Russian: разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije), авториза́ция (ru) f (avtorizácija), уполномо́чивание (ru) n (upolnomóčivanije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ауториза́ција f

  Latin: autorizácija (sh) f

• Slovak: autorizácia f
• Spanish: autorización (es) f
• Turkish: izin (tr), otorizasyon

  Ottoman Turkish: اذن (izn, izin), اجازت (icazet), رخصت (ruhsat), دستور (düstur), مساعده (müsâʼade)

• Ukrainian: до́звіл (uk) m (dózvil), дозволя́ння n (dozvoljánnja), авториза́ція f (avtoryzácija), уповнова́жування n (upovnovážuvannja)
• Welsh: awdurdodiad
• Yiddish: אויטאָריזירונג f (oytorizirung)

state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere

• Albanian: autorizim (sq) m
• Bulgarian: са́нкция (bg) f (sánkcija), одобре́ние (bg) n (odobrénie)
• Catalan: autorització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 授權 / 授权 (zh) (shòuquán)

• Czech: povolení (cs) n
• Danish: autorisation (da) c
• Dutch: machtiging (nl) f, volmacht (nl) f
• Estonian: volitus (et)
• Finnish: lupa (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: εξουσιοδότηση (el) f (exousiodótisi)
• Hindi: अधिकृत (hi) (adhikŕt)
• Hungarian: meghatalmazás (hu)
• Italian: autorizzazione (it)
• Polish: upoważnienie (pl) n, umocowanie n, zezwolenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: autorização (pt) f
• Romanian: autorizație (ro) f
• Russian: са́нкция (ru) f (sánkcija), полномо́чие (ru) n (polnomóčije), о́рдер (ru) m (órder), одобре́ние (ru) n (odobrénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ауториза́ција f

  Latin: autorizácija (sh) f

• Spanish: autorización (es) f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: اذن (izn)

• Ukrainian: уповнова́ження n (upovnovážennja)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} împuternicire (ro) f

References

• “authorization”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “authorization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.