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Grant

noun

1.

Any monetary aid.

2.

The act of providing a subsidy. Synonyms: subsidisation, subsidization.

3.

(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance. Synonym: assignment.

4.

Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978). Synonyms: Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow Grant.

5.

United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986). Synonym: Cary Grant.

6.

18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885). Synonyms: Hiram Ulysses Grant, President Grant, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant.

7.

A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business. Synonym: concession.

8.

A right or privilege that has been granted.

verb

(past & past part. granted; pres. part. granting)

1.

Let have. Synonym: allow. "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"

2.

Give as judged due or on the basis of merit. Synonym: award. "The jury awarded a million dollars to the plaintiff" , "Funds are granted to qualified researchers"

3.

Be willing to concede. Synonyms: concede, yield.

4.

Allow to have. Synonyms: accord, allot.

5.

Bestow, especially officially. Synonym: give. "Give a divorce" , "This bill grants us new rights"

6.

Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another. Synonyms: cede, concede, yield.

7.

Transfer by deed. Synonym: deed over.

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"Grant" Quotes from Famous Books

... Citizens:—We move forward to new issues and new responsibilities. Grave dangers are now upon us. God grant that they may not need to be met and settled in the rude shock of war. The time for wisdom, for clear-sighted patriotism is—now. Labor and capital, the foundations of law and order; the complex civilization of a nation which now talks ...

— Toasts - and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say - the Right Thing in the Right Way • William Pittenger

... "We have given Mrs. Grant of Laggan's present hand, in which may be discovered a little of the instability of advancing life; but there is a well-rounded breadth and distinctness in the formation of the letters, which seems to carry along with it evidence ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, No. 478, Saturday, February 26, 1831 • Various

... Deny all passes and requests for privileges of men whose conduct is not good, and on the other hand grant to men whose conduct is good, as many indulgences as is consistent ...

— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... a time of profound peace between the two kings, Denonville warmly espoused the plan; and, in the early spring of 1686, he sent the Chevalier de Troyes from Montreal, with eighty or more Canadians, to execute it. [Footnote: The Compagnie du Nord had a grant of the trade of Hudson's Bay from Louis XIV. The bay was discovered by the English, under Hudson; but the French had carried on some trade there before the establishment of Fort Nelson. Denonville's commission to Troyes merely directs him to build forts, and "se saisir des ...

— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman

... began the road which the Camp Fire Girls were to follow through Indian Notch, the gap between the two big mountains, Mount Grant and Mount Sherman. Then they were to travel easily toward the seashore, since the Manasquan Camp Fire, ever since it had been organized, had spent a certain length of time each summer ...

— The Camp Fire Girls on the March - Bessie King's Test of Friendship • Jane L. Stewart

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