auth

See also: Auth. and auth.

English

Noun

auth (countable and uncountable, plural auths)

1. Abbreviation of authentication.
2. Abbreviation of authorization.
   • 2024 December 6, Samantha Cole, “Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination”, in 404 Media‎:

     “I once had to do a prior auth for United for a glass bottle,” a medical resident wrote. “The compounded intranasal midazolam was covered, but the glass bottle it came in was not.”

3. Abbreviation of authoritarian.

Derived terms

(sense 3)

• authcom

Verb

auth (third-person singular simple present auths, present participle authing, simple past and past participle authed)

1. (informal, computing) To authenticate.

   You can't post messages on the site unless you're authed.

Derived terms

• unauthed

Anagrams

• Haut, UTAH, Utah, HATU, haut