What is the difference between authorize and accredit?
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To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).
To permit (something), to sanction or consent to (something).
To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
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To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
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To believe; to put trust in.
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To enter on the credit side of an account book.
To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
To recognize as outstanding.
(literally) To credit.
In transitive terms the difference between authorize and accredit
is that authorize is to permit (something), to sanction or consent to (something) while accredit is to recognize as outstanding.authorize
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Alternative forms
* authorise (British) * authourise (rare) * authourize (rare)Verb
(authoriz)- The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
- The judge authorized the wiretapping.
Derived terms
* deauthorize, deauthorise * authorization, authorisation * unauthorized, unauthorisedaccredit
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(en verb)- His censure will ... accredit his praises.
- These reasons ... which accredit and fortify mine opinion.
- Beton ... was accredited to the Court of France. -
- The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.
- He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
- The school was an accredited college.