different between authorization vs approbate

English

Alternative forms

• authorisation

Etymology

authorize +? -ation

Noun

authorization (countable and uncountable, plural authorizations)

1. (uncountable) Permission.

   I've got authorization. Call the office and you'll see.

2. (countable) An act of authorizing.
3. (countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.

   Can I see your authorization?

4. (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.

   We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.

Holonyms

• (permission): access control
• (an act of authorizing): access control
• (government): budgeting

Related terms

• author
• authority
• unauthorized

Translations

References

• authorization at OneLook Dictionary Search
• authorization in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin approbatus. Doublet of approve.

Adjective

approbate (comparative more approbate, superlative most approbate)

1. approved

Verb

approbate (third-person singular simple present approbates, present participle approbating, simple past and past participle approbated)

1. (transitive) To give official sanction, consent or authorization to.

Latin

Verb

approb?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of approb?