Authorized
Authorized adjective - Ordered or allowed by those in authority.
Received and authorized are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Received" instead an adjective "Authorized".
Received
Received adjective - Held by or applicable to a majority of the people.
Authorized and received are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Authorized" instead an adjective "Received".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- customary and authorized
- customary and received
- established and authorized
- established and received
- standard and authorized
- standard and received
- legitimate and authorized
- legitimate and received
- orthodox and authorized
- orthodox and received
- allowed and authorized
- allowed and received
- sanctioned and authorized
- sanctioned and received
Both words in one sentence
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His 2nd album in recording order, Love You Till Tuesday, was a casualty of Deram Records' financial problems, and received no authorized release until recently (although the lead single was released, complete with an ad for the thought-to-be-upcoming album on the sleeve).
Source: Sequel Displacement - TI Invaders for the TI-99, Avenger for the VIC-20, and Space Assault for the Color Computer were first-party Space Invaders clones for systems that never received authorized ports.
Source: Follow The Leader / Video Games
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