Authorization vs Empower - What's the difference?
authorization | empower |
(uncountable) Permission.
(countable) An act of authorizing.
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(countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.
(government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.
To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
* {{quote-book, year=1985, author=William H. Tench, title=Safety is no accident
, passage=Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things.}}
To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
* {{quote-book, year=1992, author=Nick Logan, title=The Face, page=11-130
, passage=Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.}}
As a noun authorization
is (uncountable) permission.As a verb empower is
to give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.authorization
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Alternative forms
* authorisationNoun
(wikipedia authorization)- I've ''got'' authorization . Call the office and you'll see.
- Can I see your authorization ?
- 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) budgetingReferences
* *empower
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Alternative forms
* empowre (archaic) * impower (archaic) * impowre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- It's not enough to give women and minorities equal rights on paper; they need to be empowered to be able to make use of these rights.
- John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.
