英和和英

語源

From authorize +‎ -ation.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɔːθəɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌɔθəɹəˈzeɪʃən/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˌɑθəɹəˈzeɪʃən/
• ハイフネーション: auth‧or‧i‧zation

名詞

authorization (countable and uncountable, plural authorizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (countable) An act of authorizing.

   Synonyms: assent, consent, sanction; see also Thesaurus:approval

   • 1966, Education at Berkeley, page 116:

     Our proposal thus envisages a new procedure for the authorization of experimental program

   • 1985 May, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 41, number 5, page 46:

     His authorization of decapitation targeting is incompatible with his theory of limited war

   • 1990, Horst Ungerer, The European monetary system: developments and perspectives, page 36:

     Its purpose is to govern the authorization of credit institutions and the provision of financial services throughout the EC.

   • 2002, Teresa Plowright, Dreams of an Unseen Planet:

     She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen, quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.

2. (uncountable) The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission.

   Synonyms: authority, leave, sanction; see also Thesaurus:permission

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

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

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

等位語

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

派生語

関連する語

参照

• “authorization”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “authorization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.