grant

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 31.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To give (permission or wish).

   He was granted permission to attend the meeting.

2. verb To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).
3. verb To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
4. verb To assent; to consent.
5. noun The act of granting or giving

   the grant of permission for a project

6. noun The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
7. noun The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

   I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.

8. noun A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.

   a grant of land or of money

Similar words

allow give yield concession award assignment concede accord allot subsidization

Often followed by

of to the that and from a was me

Word family

Archibald Alexander Leach Archibald Leach Cary Grant Grant Hiram Ulysses Grant Ulysses S. Grant grantable granted granter granters