grant
28
3.9
- noun
- /ɡrænt/
- Formal
:
concesión
- The first grants will be available for the upcoming school year, the Jonesboro Sun reported.
- land grant
- grant of authority
- grant of power
It really is a grant of authority is is trying to push a string.
- It really is a grant of authority is is trying to push a string.
- That vow, articulated in their founding grant, continues to inform Stanford's highest aspirations today.
Examples
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So you have white loyalists being given grants of hundreds of acres of land.
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Levi, too, received a 640-acre land grant, a tract bordering his brother's.
Academic text (2011) -
You had some kind of Spanish grant or something ?
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Remember that grant I applied for about a month ago?
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No foundation grant, no government assistance, no corporation, no committee.
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We have a couple of grants, but mostly get by on private donations.
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So why does the Prime Minister still think he is right to scrap grants for student nurses?
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I had applied for a grant to the American Film Institute, an independent filmmakers grant.
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UGA, founded in 1875, is one of the nation's oldest state-chartered land and sea-grant institutions in America.
Academic text (2008) -
The university received a generous grant to build a new research facility.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Official approval that lets you do something
444
3.7
A special right or advantage for certain people
142
5.1
A right under law or contract to get money
125
4.4
Official permission to do something
50
8.2
A special right that only a person or group has
Compounds
- Formal
30
4.0
Money given by a national government to local governments for a general purpose with few rules
- Formal
8
3.7
Public land that a government gives to someone for building colleges or railways
- Specialized
1
5.8
Money given to a person, school or local government to pay for a specific project
- Archaic
A former UK school that charged fees but accepted some students funded by the local council
A one-time payment from the UK government to help with baby costs for parents who meet certain rules
How Equal
2
8.2
70
4.2
157
4.2
- Formal
28
3.9
531
1.5
56
3.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grant comes from an old French word graunter meaning 'to give' or 'allow', and rulers and officials used it when they gave land or rights. So a grant can be an official right or piece of property given to someone.