Grant - English meaning

verb

Consent to receive or undertake (something offered).

Usage examples:

He accepted a pen as a present

verb

To agree to take something

Usage examples:

Do you accept credit cards?, she was in mumbai to accept an award for her latest novel., i offered …

verb

To say yes to an offer or invitation

Usage examples:

We've offered her the job, but i don't know whether she'll accept it., i've just accepted an invita…

verb

Give or grant someone (power, status, or recognition).

Usage examples:

The powers accorded to the head of state

noun

An official agreement or treaty.

Usage examples:

Opposition groups refused to sign the accord

noun

A formal agreement, or the condition of agreeing

Usage examples:

[ c ] both parties signed an accord last week in geneva that may finally bring an end to the confli…

verb

Accept or admit the existence or truth of.

Usage examples:

The plight of the refugees was acknowledged by the authorities

verb

To accept the truth or recognize the existence of something

Usage examples:

The president acknowledged his mistake in not vetoing the tax bill., he’s acknowledged as a leader …

verb

To let someone know that you have received something that they sent to you

Usage examples:

Acknowledge receipt of sth please acknowledge receipt of this letter.

verb

Confess to be true or to be the case.

Usage examples:

The home office finally admitted that several prisoners had been injured

verb

To recognize or accept something as true

Usage examples:

[ t ] he admitted his guilt., [ + (that) clause ] she admitted (that) she had made a mistake., each…

verb

To say that you have done something dishonest or have not succeeded in doing something

Usage examples:

"we need to do more to attract the younger end of the market," the chairman admitted., it can be di…

verb

Have enough money to pay for.

Usage examples:

The best that i could afford was a first-floor room

verb

To have enough money or time to buy, keep, or do something

Usage examples:

[ t ] i don’t know how he can afford a new car., [ i ] can you afford to take any time off work?

verb

To be able to buy or do something because you have enough money

Usage examples:

He is over 60 and can't afford his pension contributions., can afford to do sth debt is not necessa…

verb

Have the same opinion about something; concur.

Usage examples:

I completely agree with your recent editorial

verb

To have the same opinion

Usage examples:

Ann and i never seem to agree., agree with i agree with you on this issue., agree about my father a…

verb

To decide something together

Usage examples:

They agreed not to tell anyone about what had happened., we couldn't agree on what to buy., uk we f…

noun

The action or process of allocating or sharing out something.

Usage examples:

More efficient allocation of resources

noun

The process of giving someone their part of a total amount of something to use in a particular way

Usage examples:

The allocation of resources/funds/time, allocation of the grants was handled by a charity that prov…

noun

The part of a total amount of something that someone is given to use in a particular way

Usage examples:

The university is offering moving allocations to anyone who is being displaced from properties it a…

noun

A plot of land rented by an individual for growing vegetables or flowers.

Usage examples:

Some of them have nice gardens at home for flowers, and want the allotments to grow vegetables.

noun

The process of sharing something, or the amount or share of something that someone or something is given

Usage examples:

The trade body labeled as illegal last year's allotment of $3.2 billion in cotton subsidies., an al…

noun

A small piece of ground in or just outside a town that a person rents for growing vegetables, fruits, or flowers

verb

Let (someone) have or do something.

Usage examples:

The dissident was allowed to leave the country

verb

To let someone do something or let something happen; permit

Usage examples:

You’re not allowed to talk during the exam., are you allowed in the building on weekends?, video li…

verb

To make it possible for someone to do something, or to not prevent something from happening

Usage examples:

Allow sb/sth to do sth the website allows consumers to compare the prices of all energy and telepho…

noun

The amount of something that is permitted, especially within a set of regulations or for a specified purpose.

Usage examples:

Your baggage allowance

verb

Give (someone) a sum of money as an allowance.

Usage examples:

I have made up my mind to allowance him

noun

The amount of something available or needed for a particular purpose

Usage examples:

What is the recommended daily allowance of vitamin a?

verb

Recognize the full worth of.

Usage examples:

She feels that he does not appreciate her

verb

To recognize how good someone or something is and to value them or it

Usage examples:

There's no point buying him expensive wines - he doesn't appreciate them., greatly appreciated any …

verb

To understand a situation and realize that it is important

Usage examples:

We appreciate the need for immediate action., [ + that ] i appreciate that it's a difficult decisio…

verb

Give or order the giving of (something) as an official payment, compensation, or prize to (someone).

Usage examples:

He was awarded the military cross

noun

A prize or other mark of recognition given in honour of an achievement.

Usage examples:

The company's annual award for high-quality service

verb

To give something valuable, such as money or a prize following an official decision

Usage examples:

Her poodle was awarded first prize in the dog show., their company was awarded a contract worth $40…

noun

A donation or gift.

Usage examples:

An exceptional benefaction

noun

The act of giving something, such as money, to help an organization, society, or person

Usage examples:

Many of the artworks came to the museum through the benefaction of generous donors., the library is…

noun

Something that is given to help an organization, society, or person

Usage examples:

The three paintings were a benefaction stipulated in the will of a wealthy patron., a generous bene…

noun

A grant, especially one awarded to someone to enable them to study at university or college.

Usage examples:

And regardless of financial plight, many schools award bursaries or grants to the children of paren…

noun

The financial office of a college, school, or university

Usage examples:

Please send outstanding invoices to ms green at the bursary, west house., you may be eligible to re…

noun

An amount of money given to a person by an organization, such as a university, to pay for them to study

verb

Give up (power or territory).

Usage examples:

In 1874, the islands were ceded to britain

verb

To give control or possession of something, esp. land to someone else, often unwillingly or because forced to do so

Usage examples:

New orleans was ceded to spain in 1763.

verb

To give something such as control, power, or a right to someone else, especially unwillingly

Usage examples:

She says that she is finally learning to delegate, though she's still reluctant to cede control., c…

verb

Admit or agree that something is true after first denying or resisting it.

Usage examples:

I had to concede that i'd overreacted

Give over

verb

To admit that something is true, or to allow something

Usage examples:

[ + (that) clause ] officials concede (that) the plan isn’t the best one., [ i/t ] she conceded (th…

verb

Be of the same opinion; agree.

Usage examples:

The authors concurred with the majority

verb

To agree or have the same opinion as someone else

Usage examples:

He said the mayor should not be reelected, and the voters concurred.

verb

To agree with someone or something

Usage examples:

Concur with sb/sth the new report concurs with previous findings., concur that the board members co…

verb

Admit that one has committed a crime or done something wrong.

Usage examples:

He confessed that he had attacked the old man

verb

To admit that you have done something wrong, or to admit unwillingly that something is true

Usage examples:

[ t ] i’ve got something to confess – i confess that i ate the pie., [ i ] he confessed to the crime.

verb

To admit that you have done something wrong or something that you feel guilty or bad about

Usage examples:

[ + that ] she confessed to her husband that she had sold her wedding ring., he confessed to sleepi…

noun

A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.

Usage examples:

The agency is mainly financed from voluntary contributions

noun

Something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make something successful

Usage examples:

All contributions (= presents of money), no matter how small, will be much appreciated., contributi…

noun

Something that is given to a charity, especially a sum of money.

Usage examples:

Please send your donation of £20 to the disaster appeal

noun

Something of value such as money or goods that is given to help a person or organization such as a charity, or the act of giving this money, etc.

Usage examples:

It is possible to make a donation with conditions attached, for example requiring the funds to be u…

noun

Money or goods that are given to help a person or organization, or the act of giving them

Usage examples:

Donations of food and money, make a donation i'd like to make a small donation in my mother's name.

noun

The action of endowing something or someone.

Usage examples:

He tried to promote the endowment of a chair of psychiatry

noun

A gift of money that will provide an income for a college or university, a hospital, or other organization

Usage examples:

We are trying to set up an endowment to support the library.

noun

Money that is given to a college, hospital, etc. in order to provide it with an income, or the giving of this money

Usage examples:

An endowment for sth the las vegas millionaire pledged $10 million for the project and an endowment…

noun

A thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present.

Usage examples:

Wedding gifts

verb

Give (something) as a gift, especially formally or as a donation or bequest.

Usage examples:

The company gifted 2,999 shares to a charity

noun

Gamete intrafallopian transfer, a technique for assisting conception by introducing mixed ova and sperm into a fallopian tube.

Usage examples:

The first successful pregnancy conceived through gift occurred in 1984

noun

A quantity of financial or other material aid given to a person or organization.

Usage examples:

Dependence on central government handouts

noun

Something such as food, clothing, or money that is given free to someone who needs it

Usage examples:

Government handouts, her handout included a list of the books she referred to.

noun

Something such as food, clothing, or money that is given free to someone who is in need of it

Usage examples:

She ended up living on handouts and food vouchers., federal/government/state handouts, the electric…

verb

Officially allow (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

The law permits councils to monitor any factory emitting smoke

noun

An official document giving someone authorization to do something.

Usage examples:

He is only in britain on a work permit

noun

A deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western atlantic and caribbean and caught for food and sport.

Usage examples:

He told me that there were snook and tarpon (as i already knew) and there were large bonefish and p…

adjective

In a particular place.

Usage examples:

A doctor must be present at the ringside

noun

The period of time now occurring.

Usage examples:

They are happy and at peace, refusing to think beyond the present

verb

Give or award formally or ceremonially.

Usage examples:

The duke presented certificates to the men

verb

Identify (someone or something) from having encountered them before; know again.

Usage examples:

I recognized her when her wig fell off

verb

To know someone or something because you have seen or experienced that person or thing before

Usage examples:

I recognized my old high school teacher from the photograph., doctors are trained to recognize the …

verb

To know what something is because you have seen it before, or because you have heard or read about it

Usage examples:

Managers failed to recognize the symptoms as quickly as they should., more and more people are begi…

noun

Academic study or achievement; learning at a high level.

Usage examples:

The intellectual dishonesty has nothing to do with lack of scholarship

noun

The qualities, methods, or achievements of a scholar

Usage examples:

[ u ] recent scholarship has addressed this scientific issue.

noun

The position of being a sponsor.

Usage examples:

The company's sponsorship of the tournament

noun

A fixed regular sum paid as a salary or as expenses to a clergyman, teacher, or public official.

Usage examples:

The rise was ‘three per cent - a percentage in line with the rise in stipends for all clergymen,’ h…

noun

A fixed, regular income that is usually not based on an amount of work done

Usage examples:

As a student advisor, she gets a monthly stipend from the college.

noun

An amount of money that is paid regularly to someone, especially for work or training that is usually unpaid

Usage examples:

An $80-a-month stipend covers each volunteer's personal expenses., in addition to their regular sal…

noun

A sum of money granted by the state or a public body to help an industry or business keep the price of a commodity or service low.

Usage examples:

A farm subsidy

noun

Money given as part of the cost of something to help or encourage it to happen

Usage examples:

Export subsidies, farm subsidies

noun

Money given by a government or an organization to reduce the cost of producing food, a product, etc. and to help to keep prices low

Usage examples:

Government/public/state subsidies, agricultural/export/farm subsidies, provide/receive/get a subsid…

noun

A grant of money, especially from a government.

Usage examples:

Ottawa has begun to cut federal subventions to the provinces

noun

An amount of money given as support by an organization or government for a particular purpose

Usage examples:

A system of subventions became necessary to safeguard a minimal standard of living.

verb

Give or grant (something) to (someone) in a gracious or condescending manner.

Usage examples:

It is a blessing vouchsafed him by heaven

verb

To tell or give something to someone

Usage examples:

He vouchsafed the information that the meeting had been postponed.

verb

Produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product).

Usage examples:

The land yields grapes and tobacco

noun

An amount produced of an agricultural or industrial product.

Usage examples:

The milk yield was poor

verb

Give or supply