grant
Noun
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is a type of: aid, assistance, economic aid, economic assistance, financial aid, financial assistance - gift of money or other material help to support a person or causesubtypes:
- 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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is a type of: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling - the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plansubtypes:
- 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
same as: subsidisation, subsidization -
referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityis a type of: transferred possession, transferred property - a possession whose ownership changes or lapsessubtypes:
- 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)
same as: assignment -
is an instance of: painter - an artist who paintsbelongs to: 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 lifestylessame as: duncan grant, duncan james corrow grant
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same as: cary grant
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is an instance of:
- 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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is a type of: contract - a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by lawsubtypes: franchise - an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular placesame as: concession
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is a type of: 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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is a type of: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebodysubtypes:same as: allow
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is a type of: give - cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sensesubtypes: pension, pension off - grant a pension tosame as: award
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subtypes: forgive - stop blaming or grant forgiveness
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is a type of: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebodysubtypes:
- give - accord by verdict
- enfranchise - grant voting rights
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same as: give
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is a type of: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
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same as: deed over
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- Verbs of buying, selling, owning
- Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
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