authorisation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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A measure something similar to this was the authorisation of the festivals of Longchamps, which had been forgotten since the Revolution. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
The owner gave him a paper telling the Captain to give him every facility in doing whatever he chose on board the ship, and also a similar authorisation to his agent at Varna. — Dracula, Bram Stoker
Anton Antonitch was surprised at first, then he frowned, then he reflected, and did after all lend me the money, receiving from me a written authorisation to take from my salary a fortnight later the sum that he had lent me. — Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

mandate, authorization

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