grant
Noun
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Any monetary aid (synset 113287915)
hypernym: aid, assistance, economic aid, economic assistance, financial aid, financial assistance - gift of money or other material help to support a person or causehyponym:
- subsidy - a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public
- grant-in-aid - a grant to a person or school for some educational project
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The act of providing a subsidy (synset 100088243)
hypernym: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling - the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a planhyponym:
- award, awarding - a grant made by a law court
- block grant - a grant of federal money to state and local governments to support social welfare programs
- grant-in-aid - a grant from a central government to a local government
synonym: subsidisation, subsidization -
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance (synset 113275136)
domain category: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityhypernym: transferred possession, transferred property - a possession whose ownership changes or lapseshyponym:
- apanage, appanage - a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
- land grant - a grant of public land (as to a railway or college)
synonym: assignment -
Scottish painter;
Cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978) (synset 111031555)instance hypernym: painter - an artist who paintsmember meronym: bloomsbury group - an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestylessynonym: duncan grant, duncan james corrow grant -
United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986) (synset 111031394)
synonym: cary grant
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18th President of the United States;
Commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885) (synset 111031119)instance hypernym:- full general, general - a general officer of the highest rank
- chief executive, president, president of the united states, united states president - the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
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A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business (synset 106538610)
"he got the beer concession at the ball park"hypernym: contract - a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by lawhyponym: franchise - an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular placesynonym: concession
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A right or privilege that has been granted (synset 105184004)
hypernym: right - an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature
Verb
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Let have (synset 202260270)
"grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"hypernym: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebodyhyponym:synonym: allow
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Give as judged due or on the basis of merit (synset 202267085)
"the referee awarded a free kick to the team"; "the jury awarded a million dollars to the plaintiff"; "Funds are granted to qualified researchers"hypernym: give - cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sensehyponym: pension, pension off - grant a pension tosynonym: award
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Be willing to concede (synset 200807711)
"I grant you this much"hyponym: forgive - stop blaming or grant forgiveness
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Allow to have (synset 202260076)
"grant a privilege"hypernym: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebodyhyponym:
- give - accord by verdict
- enfranchise - grant voting rights
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Bestow, especially officially (synset 202322074)
"grant a degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights"synonym: give
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Give over;
Surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another (synset 202321629)hypernym: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody -
Transfer by deed (synset 202260750)
"grant land"synonym: deed over
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