Authorize and Check

Authorize

Authorize verb - To give official or legal power to.

Check and authorize are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Check" instead a verb "Authorize".

Check

Check verb - To be in agreement on every point.

Authorize and check are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Authorize" instead a verb "Check".

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Amoral Attorney Even British secretary of state Lord Chesterfield decried these in the Letters to His Son: "But the public lawyers, now, seem to me rather to warp the law, in order to authorize, than to check, those unlawful proceedings of princes and states" (letter 52)
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