authorized

English

Alternative forms

• authorised (non-Oxford British English)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔθəɹaɪzd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑθəɹaɪzd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːθəɹaɪzd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

authorized (not comparable)

1. Explicitly allowed.

   authorized access

   authorized clothes

   authorized decision

   authorized hunting

   authorized payment

Synonyms

• permitted
• allowed

Antonyms

• unauthorized

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

• authorizedly
• authorized term
• nonauthorized

Related terms

• authorization

Translations

explicitly allowed

Catalan: autoritzat (ca) Czech: povolený (cs) Finnish: auktorisoitu (fi) French: autorisé (fr) Galician: autorizado German: autorisiert (de) Hindi: अधिकृत (hi) (adhikŕt) Malayalam: അംഗീകൃത (ml) (aṅgīkr̥ta) Portuguese: autorizado (pt) m Spanish: autorizado (es)

Verb

authorized

1. simple past and past participle of authorize

Further reading

• “authorized”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• authorize in Britannica Dictionary
• “authorized, authorised”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.