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All grant synonyms

grant
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verb grant

  • cede β€” If someone in a position of authority cedes land or power to someone else, they let them have the land or power, often as a result of military or political pressure.
  • accord β€” An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
  • give β€” to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • transfer β€” to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • accept β€” If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
  • bestow β€” To bestow something on someone means to give or present it to them.
  • invest β€” to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
  • award β€” An award is a prize or certificate that a person is given for doing something well.
  • allocate β€” If one item or share of something is allocated to a particular person or for a particular purpose, it is given to that person or used for that purpose.
  • permit β€” to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
  • donate β€” to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
  • assign β€” If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
  • allot β€” If something is allotted to someone, it is given to them as their share.
  • own β€” of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
  • convey β€” To convey information or feelings means to cause them to be known or understood by someone.
  • accede β€” If you accede to someone's request, you do what they ask.
  • acquiesce β€” If you acquiesce in something, you agree to do what someone wants or to accept what they do.
  • acknowledge β€” If you acknowledge a fact or a situation, you accept or admit that it is true or that it exists.
  • stake β€” something that is wagered in a game, race, or contest.
  • concede β€” If you concede something, you admit, often unwillingly, that it is true or correct.
  • impart β€” to make known; tell; relate; disclose: to impart a secret.
  • transmit β€” to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
  • avow β€” If you avow something, you admit it or declare it.
  • confer β€” When you confer with someone, you discuss something with them in order to make a decision. You can also say that two people confer.
  • surrender β€” to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
  • present β€” being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
  • relinquish β€” to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
  • vouchsafe β€” to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension: to vouchsafe a reply to a question.
  • assume β€” If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
  • drop β€” a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • yield β€” to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
  • bless β€” When someone such as a priest blesses people or things, he asks for God's favour and protection for them.
  • admit β€” If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.
  • suppose β€” to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
  • profess β€” to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.

noun grant

  • funding β€” a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
  • scholarship β€” learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
  • endowment β€” The action of endowing something or someone.
  • allowance β€” An allowance is money that is given to someone, usually on a regular basis, in order to help them pay for the things that they need.
  • contribution β€” If you make a contribution to something, you do something to help make it successful or to produce it.
  • donation β€” an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution.
  • gift β€” gamete intrafallopian transfer: a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.
  • bequest β€” A bequest is money or property which you legally leave to someone when you die.
  • allocation β€” An allocation is an amount of something, especially money, that is given to a particular person or used for a particular purpose.
  • allotment β€” In Britain, an allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.
  • appropriation β€” An appropriation is an amount of money that a government or organization reserves for a particular purpose.
  • assistance β€” If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
  • charity β€” A charity is an organization which raises money in order to help people who are sick, very poor, or who have a disability.
  • concession β€” If you make a concession to someone, you agree to let them do or have something, especially in order to end an argument or conflict.
  • fellowship β€” the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
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