AUTHORIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does authorization mean? 

• AUTHORIZATION (noun)
  The noun AUTHORIZATION 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: AUTHORIZATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTHORIZATION (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 ("authorization" 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 ("authorization" is a kind of...):

control (power to direct or determine)

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

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 ("authorization" is a kind of...):

permission (approval to do something)

Derivation:

authorize (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 ("authorization" is a kind of...):

direction; management (the act of managing something)

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

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:

authorize (give or delegate power or authority to)

 Context examples 

Number assigned by FDA during Registration and Listing to all devices in commercial distribution, regardless of pre-market authorization requirements, per 21 CFR 807.28(f).

(FDA Device Listing Number, Food and Drug Administration)

Federal funds may not be normally used except by special arrangements and authorization.

(Institution Supplementation, NCI Thesaurus)

A document defining content and form of the information that has to be supplied with or about a medical product by or on behalf of the marketing authorization holder.

(Medical Product Document, NCI Thesaurus)

A document defining content and form of the information that has to be supplied with or about a pharmaceutical product by or on behalf of the marketing authorization holder.

(Pharmaceutical Product Information, NCI Thesaurus)

The “social interest” species can be exploited subject to regulation and authorization from the Environment and Water Resources Institute (INEMA), based on specific requirements.

(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)

A business process state of a clinical study in relation to its approval status, authorization for patient enrollment, and protocol-specific activities.

(Clinical Study Status, NCI Thesaurus)

The authorization must indicate if the health information used or disclosed is existing information or new information that will be created.

(Authorization for Release of Confidential Health Information, NCI Thesaurus)

The device software failed to provide adequate authorization, access control, and accountability features.

(Device Software Security Vulnerability Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

An indicator that can be set or unset in order to signal whether a signed authorization from a patient, or his legal representative, or clinical study participant for the use or disclosure of oral, written, or electronic form of confidential health information that identifies the individual and relates to the medical history, diagnosis, treatment, or prognosis of his condition has been obtained.

(Authorization for Release of Confidential Health Information Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

Services that are needed to maintain the running of a grid, including monitoring and discovery service, security management service (authentication and authorization), identifier naming and resolution service, query and federated query service, and workflow management service.

(Core Grid Service, NCI Thesaurus)