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.

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)
• 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 at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.