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v. let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison" [syn: allow ] [ant: deny ] give on the basis of merit; "Funds are granted to qualified researchers" [syn: award ] be willing to concede; "I grant you this much" [syn: concede ...
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Grant can be both a surname and a given name . The name is of English and Scottish origin, and there are several possible origins for the name. One possible origin of the name is from a nickname derived from the Anglo-Norman graund , graunt ("tall", "large"). ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a council grant (= amount of money that a council gives to a person, organization, project etc ) ▪ The community centre has had its council grant cut by 50%. a research grant (= money for doing research ) ▪ Have you ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grant \Grant\ (gr[.a]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Granted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Granting .] [OE. graunten, granten, OF. graanter, craanter, creanter, to promise, yield, LL. creantare to promise, assure, for (assumed LL.) credentare to make believe, fr. L. credens, ...
Usage examples of grant.
Come, grant the Trojans victory after victory till the Achaean armies pay my dear son back, building higher the honor he deserves!
Even granting that we know the exact level of the surface of the Acropolis in classical times at every point, we certainly do not know all the objects--votive offerings and the like--set up in various places.
Now the Adar of the Ildiran Solar Navy was becoming blind and deaf to a comforting foundation he had always taken for granted.
Grant, this is Aild Ercy Farris, my daughter, and Sectuib Apparent in Zeor.
Tall, even for an elf, he looked human because of his extraordinary build and the high cheekbones his Amerind blood granted him.
Even now, no one knows for sure how much of genius is hereditary and how much is environmental, but grant me the premise.
The annona was the pay bonus which Roman emperors traditionally granted their troops upon assuming the throne.
Even a particular pardon, granted six years after to the earl of Arundel, was annulled by parliament, on pretence that it had been procured by surprise, and that the king was not then fully apprized of the degree of guilt incurred by that nobleman.
Though Antichrist has been granted power to work his horror throughout the world for a time, he shall come to a bitter end that has already been decided.
Bursaries, research grants, third-world scholarships, a whole marine-biology, antipollution programme at Rutgers.
Oftentimes they brushed together in passing, but the apes had already taken his presence for granted, so that he was as much one of them as Akut himself.
Hence an act granting a right of appeal from the Commission to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is not unconstitutional as conferring executive power upon a judicial body.
United States in a special protocol whereby this nation was allowed, in lieu of granting appeals from its prize courts to the International Court, to be mulcted in damages in the latter for erroneous decisions in the former.
Knowing that Grant might someday decide to return from the grave, Arcadia had opted to buy a gun and had learned how to use it.
Grant Loring is alive and well and has become a problem for Arcadia because it is a reasonable possibility.