AWARDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does awarding mean? 

• AWARDING (noun)
  The noun AWARDING has 1 sense:

1. a grant made by a law court

  Familiarity information: AWARDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AWARDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grant made by a law court

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

award; awarding

Context example:

he criticized the awarding of compensation by the court

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

grant; subsidisation; subsidization (the act of providing a subsidy)

Domain category:

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

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

addiction ((Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master)

 Context examples 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards NRSA individual postdoctoral fellowships (F32) to the most promising applicants to support full-time research training related to the mission of the NIH awarding components.

(Individual National Research Service Award, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers asked 2,289 adults, ages 71 to 82, to identify 12 common smells, awarding scores from zero to as high as 12 based on how many scents they got right.

(Declining Sense of Smell Linked to Risk of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

After the success of completing the PDR, NASA’s project team can start the process of soliciting proposals later this year and awarding a contract early next year to build the piloted, single-engine X-plane.

(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)

To provide the opportunity for promising medical scientists with demonstrated aptitude to develop into independent investigators, or for faculty members to pursue research aspects of categorical areas applicable to the awarding unit, and aid in filling the academic faculty gap in these shortage areas within health professions institutions of the country.

(Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08), NCI Thesaurus)