authorization

The definition of an authorization is something that allows an action or event or an act of allowing some action or event to happen.

(noun)

A warrant that allows police to search a building is an example of authorization.

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See authorization in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. an authorizing or being authorized
  2. legal power or right; sanction

See authorization in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. The act of authorizing. See Synonyms at permission.
  2. Something that authorizes; a sanction.

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