All grant synonyms
grant
G g 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.