AUTHORISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does authorisation mean? 

• AUTHORISATION (noun)
  The noun AUTHORISATION has 4 senses:

1. a document giving an official instruction or command

2. the power or right to give orders or make decisions

3. official permission or approval

4. the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

  Familiarity information: AUTHORISATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTHORISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A document giving an official instruction or command

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

authorisation; authorization; mandate

Hypernyms ("authorisation" is a kind of...):

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

Attribute:

authorised; authorized (endowed with authority)

unauthorised; unauthorized (not endowed with authority)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The power or right to give orders or make decisions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

authorisation; authority; authorization; dominance; potency; say-so

Context example:

a place of potency in the state

Hypernyms ("authorisation" is a kind of...):

control (power to direct or determine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "authorisation"):

power of appointment (authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property)

carte blanche (complete freedom or authority to act)

command (the power or authority to command)

imperium (supreme authority; absolute dominion)

lordship (the authority of a lord)

muscle (authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way))

sovereignty (the authority of a state to govern another state)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Official permission or approval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

authorisation; authority; authorization; sanction

Context example:

authority for the program was renewed several times

Hypernyms ("authorisation" is a kind of...):

permission (approval to do something)

Derivation:

authorise (grant authorization or clearance for)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

authorisation; authorization; empowerment

Hypernyms ("authorisation" is a kind of...):

direction; management (the act of managing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "authorisation"):

sanction (the act of final authorization)

license; permission; permit (the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization)

certification; enfranchisement (the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on)

commission; commissioning (the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions)

delegating; delegation; deputation; relegating; relegation (authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions)

loan approval (formal authorization to get a loan (usually from a bank))

rubber stamp (routine authorization of an action without questions)

Derivation:

authorise (grant authorization or clearance for)

 Context examples 

The owner gave him a paper telling the Captain to give him every facility in doing whatever he chose on board the ship, and also a similar authorisation to his agent at Varna.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)