Authorize and Command

Authorize

Authorize verb - To give official or legal power to.

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

Command verb - To issue orders to (someone) by right of authority.

Usage example: the general commanded his troops with Caesar-like imperiousness

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Authorize and command are semantically related in demand topic. Sometimes you can use "Authorize" instead a verb "Command".

party	authorize party	command party
force	authorize force	command force

It backfires somewhat, as it places him under the command of someone else other than the general that Partridge had been counting on to be unavailable to authorize Burton's testifying at the committee hearing.

Source: Film / The Pentagon Wars
You Are in Command Now / Still the Leader: Corporal Hicks becomes able to authorize a nuclear attack thanks to alien-caused attrition in the higher ranks, though the company lieutenant was only wounded, not killed, in an incident precipitated by his own ineptitude.

Source: Film / Aliens

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