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UK
/ˈɔːθɔːɹˌaɪzd/
]
ADJECTIVE
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sanctioned by established authority
an authoritative communique
the authorized biography - endowed with authority
How To Use authorised In A Sentence
- Both detention and compulsory questioning need to be authorised by a warrant issued by a prescribed authority.
- The book was authorised, not critical, and its intent was somewhat hagiographical.
- Not only will this serve to disenchant the employee, it may also result in him or her taking the time off anyway and phoning in sick or being on unauthorised absence.
- Cities are already a forest of signs, but most of these signs are authorised texts; part of the official story of a city.
- The ostensible reason was Mr Moussa's supposedly unauthorised dialogue with representatives of the main radical religious group, the Jamaat Islamiya.
- It is true that whichever is the loser will have a remedy against the unauthorised seller.
- Inevitably, there is suspicion that the latest internal recasting of the MoD, though triggered by 10 months' work by Lord Levene and the defence reform unit, has also been shaped at the 11th hour by Downing Street's extreme anger at recent unauthorised public complaints by the service chiefs about the sustainability of the Libya mission. Ministry of Defence: Too many chiefs | Editorial
- The complement consists of the usual non-meat additives as used in meat butchery (for example breadcrumbs and trimmings) and pork butchery (more particularly the authorised food additives and seasonings).
- Forty-five per cent of respondents detected unauthorised access by insiders.
- My daughter had rung the ward concerned but got a very tart response as she was not a relative, even though she had been authorised by the husband to take this step.