Definition of grant

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grant    (grnt) KEY 

TRANSITIVE VERB:
grant·ed, grant·ing, grants

1. To consent to the fulfillment of: grant a request.
2. To accord as a favor, prerogative, or privilege: granted the franchise to all citizens.
3. 1. To bestow; confer: grant aid.
   2. To transfer (property) by a deed.
4. To concede; acknowledge: I grant the genius of your plan, but you still will not find backers.

NOUN:

1. The act of granting.
2. 1. Something granted.
   2. A giving of funds for a specific purpose: federal grants for medical research.
3. Law
   1. A transfer of property by deed.
   2. The property so transferred.
   3. The deed by which the property is so transferred.
4. One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English granten, from Old French granter, variant of creanter, from Vulgar Latin *crdentre, to assure, from Latin crdns, crdent- present participle of crdere, to believe; see kerd- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
granta·ble(Adjective), granter(Noun)