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Facilitate vs Authorize - What's the difference?

facilitate | authorize |

As verbs the difference between facilitate and authorize

is that facilitate is to make easy or easier while authorize is to grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).

facilitate

English

Verb

(facilitat)
  • To make easy or easier.
  • To help bring about
  • To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)

    • Related terms

    * facile * facilitation * facilitative * facilitator * facilitatory ----

    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