Definition of "authorized" []

• Explicitly allowed. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of authorize. (verb)

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• "Picard considered how many meanings rode behind the word authorized."
• "The report also sheds little new light on the most troubling part of Sino-Forest's business model: its reliance on what it calls "authorized intermediaries" - local partners that Muddy Waters and sources interviewed by The Globe and Mail during its own months-long investigation suggest may not be arms-length from the company itself."
• "Our faith tells us that what you authorized is an absolute evil."