Synonyms of the word

accredit

• v. (transitive) To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
• v. (transitive) To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
• v. (transitive) To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize,…
• v. (transitive) To believe; to put trust in.
• v. (transitive) To enter on the credit side of an account book.
• v. (transitive) To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as…
• v. (transitive) To recognize as outstanding.
• v. (transitive, literally) To credit.

appoint

• v. (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting…
• v. (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings…
• v. (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
• v. (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

ascribe

• v. (transitive) To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.

assign

• v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
• v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
• v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
• v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
• v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
• v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
• n. An assignee.
• n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

attribute

• n. A characteristic or quality of a thing.
• n. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.
• n. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
• n. (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
• n. (computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
• n. (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
• v. To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
• v. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

certify

• v. (transitive) to attest to as the truth or meeting a standard.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

credit

• v. (transitive) To believe; to put credence in.
• v. (transitive, accounting) To add to an account (confer debit.).
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the contribution of.
• v. (transitive) To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
• n. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
• n. (uncountable) Recognition and respect.
• n. (countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
• n. (television/film, usually in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or…
• n. (uncountable, law, business) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's…
• n. The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
• n. (uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing…
• n. (accounting) An addition to certain accounts.
• n. (tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
• n. A source of value, distinction or honour.
• n. An arbitrary unit of value, used in many token economies.
• n. (uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
• n. (countable) A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.

impute

• v. (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
• v. (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
• v. (transitive) To take into account; to consider; to regard.
• v. (transitive) To attribute or credit to.

licence

• n. (Britain, Canada, Australia, South Africa) standard spelling of license.
• v. (Britain, Canada, South Africa, nonstandard) Alternative form of license.

license

• n. A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
• n. The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
• n. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or…
• n. Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
• v. The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.
• v. Authorize officially.

recognise

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.

recognize

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.
• v. To show appreciation of.
• v. (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
• v. (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
• v. (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
• v. To cognize again.