grant

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To allow or consent to the fulfillment of (something requested).
• transitive verb To give or confer officially or formally.
• transitive verb To transfer (property) by a deed.
• transitive verb To concede; acknowledge.
• noun The act of granting.
• noun Something granted, especially a giving of funds for a specific purpose.
• noun The document or provision in a document by which a grant is made.
• noun One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To transfer the title or possession of in any formal way, specifically for a sufficient or valuable consideration; give or make over; especially, to convey by deed or writing.
• To bestow or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request.
• To allow; permit.
• To assent to; answer in the affirmative.
• To admit to be true; concede, as something obvious or not required to be proved; accept or concede without proof.
• Synonyms and
• Confer, Bestow, etc. See give.
• To consent; assent; give permission or countenance.
• noun A promise; a thing promised.
• noun The act of granting; a conferring or conceding.
• noun A thing granted or conferred; a boon; especially, something conveyed by deed or patent: often used of tracts of land granted to colonists, railroad companies, etc.
• noun In law: Originally, a creating or transferring by deed: used in reference to mere rights, estates in expectancy, and incorporeal property, which could not be delivered.
• noun In modern use, a conveyance in writing of such things as cannot pass or be transferred by word only, as land, rents, reversions, tithes, etc.
• noun An admission of something as true.
• noun In brewing, a copper or iron vessel into which the wort flows from the clarifying battery, and from which it is lifted into the wort-pan.
• A Middle English form of grand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
• transitive verb To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
• transitive verb To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
• intransitive verb obsolete To assent; to consent.
• noun The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
• noun The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
• noun The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
• noun (Law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; ; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
• verb To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
• verb To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
• verb To assent; to consent.
• noun The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
• noun The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
• noun The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
• noun law A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
• noun informal An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb let have
• noun 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
• noun a right or privilege that has been granted
• noun United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)
• noun the act of providing a subsidy
• verb give as judged due or on the basis of merit
• noun a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business