Synonyms of the word

grant

• v. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer…
• v. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
• v. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
• v. To assent; to consent.
• n. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
• n. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
• n. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
• n. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the…
• n. the deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
• n. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

accord

• n. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
• n. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
• n. Agreement or harmony of things in general.
• n. (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated,…
• n. (international law) An international agreement.
• n. (obsolete) Assent.
• n. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
• v. (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
• v. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
• v. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
• v. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
• v. (transitive, dated, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.

actor

• n. A person who performs in a theatrical play or film.
• n. One who acts; a doer.
• n. One who takes part in a situation.
• n. (law) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
• n. (law) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
• n. (policy debate) One who enacts a certain policy action.
• n. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

agree

• v. (intransitive) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become…
• v. (intransitive) To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
• v. (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange…
• v. (intransitive) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
• v. (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
• v. (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.
• v. (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

aid

• n. (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
• n. (countable) A helper; an assistant.
• n. (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
• n. (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose,…
• n. (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
• n. (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
• n. (countable) An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
• v. (transitive) To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.

allocation

• n. The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

allot

• v. (transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
• v. (transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

allotment

• n. The act of allotting; assignment.
• n. That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot,…
• n. (law) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.
• n. (Britain) A plot of land rented from the council for growing fruit and vegetables.

allow

• v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
• v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
• v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
• v. To not bar or obstruct.
• v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
• v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
• v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
• v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

apportioning

• v. present participle of apportion.
• n. apportionment.

apportionment

• n. The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
• n. (US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various…
• n. (US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.

assignation

• n. An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
• n. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
• n. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.

assignment

• n. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
• n. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
• n. An assigned task.
• n. A position to which someone is assigned.
• n. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
• n. (law) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.
• n. (law) A document that effects this transfer.
• n. (computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

award

• n. (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
• n. (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
• n. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor…
• n. (obsolete) Care, keeping.
• n. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or…
• v. (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful…
• v. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
• v. (transitive) to give an award (prize) for merit.

cede

• v. (transitive) To give up, give way, give away.

concede

• v. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant.
• v. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
• v. To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
• v. To yield or make concession.
• v. (sports) To have a goal or point scored against.
• v. (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

concession

• n. The act of conceding.
• n. An act of conceding, particularly.
• n. A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
• n. (chiefly US) A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above.).
• n. (chiefly US, usually in the plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concession…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A person eligible for a concession price (see above).
• v. To grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.

concord

• n. A state of agreement; harmony; union.
• n. (obsolete) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
• n. (grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person or case.
• n. (law, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which…
• n. (probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant…
• n. A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord…
• v. (intransitive) To agree; to act together.

concur

• v. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
• v. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
• v. (obsolete) To run together; to meet.

contract

• n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
• n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
• n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
• n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
• n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
• adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
• adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
• v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
• v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
• v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
• v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
• v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
• v. To betroth; to affiance.

general

• adj. Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific…
• adj. (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate…
• adj. Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.
• adj. Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category.
• adj. Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.
• adj. Not limited to a specific class; miscellaneous, concerned with all branches of a given subject or area.
• n. (now rare) A general fact or proposition; a generality.
• n. (military) A senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific…
• n. A great strategist or tactician.
• n. (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits.
• n. (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral.
• n. (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid with no specific duties.
• n. A general anaesthetic; general anaesthesia.
• v. To lead (soldiers) as a general.

gift

• n. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
• n. A talent or natural ability.
• n. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
• n. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
• v. (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
• v. (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

histrion

• n. (obsolete) A stage actor.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

painter

• n. An artist who paints pictures.
• n. A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
• n. (obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
• n. (nautical) A rope connected to the bow of a boat, used to attach it to e.g. a jetty or another boat.
• n. (US) A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther".

parceling

• v. present participle of parcel.

parcelling

• v. (Britain) present participle of parcel.
• n. (nautical) One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage,…

player

• n. One that plays.
• n. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
• n. A significant participant.
• n. (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.

present

• adj. Relating to now, for the time being; current.
• adj. Located in the immediate vicinity.
• adj. (obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
• adj. (obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
• adj. (dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
• adj. (obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
• adj. Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the…
• adj. Attentive; alert; focused.
• n. The current moment or period of time.
• n. The present tense.
• n. A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other…
• n. (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
• v. To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
• v. (transitive) To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop…
• v. (transitive) To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.
• v. (reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
• v. (transitive) To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
• v. (transitive) To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
• v. (transitive) To put on, stage (a play etc.).
• v. (transitive, military) To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
• v. (reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the…
• v. (intransitive, with "as") To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
• v. (transitive) To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
• v. (transitive) To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
• v. (transitive) To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
• v. (transitive) To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
• v. (transitive) To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.

right

• adj. (archaic) Straight, not bent.
• adj. Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two…
• adj. Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
• adj. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
• adj. Healthy, sane, competent.
• adj. Real; veritable.
• adj. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
• adj. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
• adj. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points…
• adj. Designed to be placed or worn outward.
• adj. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
• adv. On the right side.
• adv. Towards the right side.
• interj. Yes, that is correct; I agree.
• interj. I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
• interj. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
• interj. Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.
• interj. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
• n. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
• n. A legal or moral entitlement.
• n. The right side or direction.
• n. The right hand.
• n. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
• n. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
• v. To correct.
• v. To set upright.
• v. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
• v. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
• adv. Exactly, precisely.
• adv. Immediately, directly.
• adv. (Britain, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
• adv. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
• adv. In a correct manner.
• adv. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.

subsidisation

• n. Alternative form of subsidization.

subsidization

• n. The act or process of subsidizing.

thespian

• adj. Of, or relating to drama and acting; dramatic, theatrical.
• n. An actor or player.

yield

• v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
• v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
• v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
• v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
• v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
• v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
• v. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
• v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
• v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo…
• v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
• n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
• n. A product; the quantity of something produced.
• n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.