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Grant   /grænt/   Listen
noun
Grant  n.  
1.
The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
2.
The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
3.
The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. Especially: A sum of money given to an institution, group, or individual for a specific purpose, such as for scientific research; as, he got a million-dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to study cancer. Note: Grants for research and other purposes are given usually by government agencies, charitable foundations, or industrial organizations.
4.
(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. Note: Formerly, in English law, the term was specifically applied to transfers of incorporeal hereditaments, expectant estates, and letters patent from government and such is its present application in some of the United States. But now, in England the usual mode of transferring realty is by grant; and so, in some of the United States, the term grant is applied to conveyances of every kind of real property.


verb
Grant  v. t.  (past & past part. granted; pres. part. granting)  
1.
To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; usually in answer to petition. "Grant me the place of this threshing floor."
2.
To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give. "Wherefore did God grant me my request."
3.
To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede. "Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree."
Synonyms: Syn. To give; confer; bestow; convey; transfer; admit; allow; concede. See Give.


Grant  v. i.  To assent; to consent. (Obs.)





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"Grant" Quotes from Famous Books



... this for a moment, and was inclined to grant the plea, but Ramphis and the other priests clamoured for ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... what thinking over can be wanted about such a trifle? I never before asked you a favour. Surely you cannot refuse to grant so simple a request, after the trouble I have taken to explain my reasons ...
— Charlotte's Inheritance • M. E. Braddon
... present as a known observation, that she was, though very capable of counsel, absolute enough in her own resolution; which was ever apparent even to her last, and in that of her still aversion to grant Tyrone {24} the least drop of her mercy, though earnestly and frequently advised thereunto, yea, wrought only by her whole Council of State, with very many reasons; and, as the state of her kingdom then stood, I may speak it ...
— Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia • Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton
... Sconda orders to get twenty of the best men in the village to accompany me. We shall go by way of Crooked Trail, and should reach Big Draw by night. God grant we ...
— Glen of the High North • H. A. Cody
... which the act was founded, and of the charge which led to that judgment. The court was perplexed. They knew not how to refuse; for he claimed it as his right, and necessary for his defence. On the other hand, they could not grant it, because no record of the charge or ...
— The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans - to the Accession of King George the Fifth - Volume 8 • John Lingard and Hilaire Belloc


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