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granting Definition


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grant
verb granted, granting
    1. To give, allow or fulfil.
      Thesaurus: bestow, give, confer, award, donate, provide, allocate, apportion, vouchsafe; Antonym: withhold.
    2. To admit something to be true.
      Thesaurus: admit, concede, accede, acknowledge, acquiesce, consent, accord; Antonym: deny.
noun
    1. Something granted, especially an amount of money from a public fund for a specific purpose.
      Thesaurus: donation, award, endowment, gift, scholarship, subsidy, benefaction, annuity, honorarium.
    2. law.
      The transfer of property by deed.
Etymology: 13c: from French granter or greanter, variant of creanter to promise.



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