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Authorize vs Unauthorized - What's the difference?

authorize | unauthorized |

As a verb authorize

is to grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).

As an adjective unauthorized is

not having any authority.

authorize

English

Alternative forms

* authorise (British) * authourise (rare) * authourize (rare)

Verb

(authoriz)
  • To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).
    • The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
  • To permit (something), to sanction or consent to (something).
    • The judge authorized the wiretapping.

    Derived terms

    * deauthorize, deauthorise * authorization, authorisation * unauthorized, unauthorised

    unauthorized

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not having any authority
  • without official authorization

    • Usage notes

    * Objects: autobiography, copying, distribution, disclosure, publication, person, warfare, and a variety of others.