Grant vs. Award — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Grant and Award
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Grant
To allow or consent to the fulfillment of (something requested)
Grant permission to speak frankly.
Grant a request.
Award
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration.
Grant
To give or confer officially or formally
Grant voting rights to citizens.
Grant diplomatic immunity.
Award
To grant as merited or due
Awarded prizes to the winners.
Grant
To transfer (property) by a deed.
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Award
To grant an amount or other benefit legally due
Awarded damages to the plaintiff.
Grant
To concede; acknowledge
I grant that your plan is ingenious, but you still will not find many backers.
Award
Something awarded or granted, as for merit.
Grant
The act of granting.
Award
An amount or other benefit granted as legally due.
Grant
Something granted, especially a giving of funds for a specific purpose
Federal grants for medical research.
Award
(legal) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
Grant
The document or provision in a document by which a grant is made.
Award
(legal) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
Grant
One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.
Award
A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
Grant
(ditransitive) to give (permission or wish)
He was granted permission to attend the meeting.
The genie granted him three wishes
Award
A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
Grant
(ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.en
Award
(intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
Grant
(transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
Award
(transitive) To give (an award).
Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.
Grant
(intransitive) To assent; to consent.
Award
(transitive) To give (a person) an award.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Grant
The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
Award
To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
The arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant
Grant
The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
Award
To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
To reviewThe wrongful sentence, and award a new.
Grant
The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.
Award
To determine; to make an award.
Grant
(law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.
A grant of land or of money
Award
A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
An award had been given against.
Grant
The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
Award
The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
Grant
(informal) An application for a grant monetary boon to aid research or the like.
Award
A grant made by a law court;
He criticized the awarding of compensation by the court
Grant
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.
Award
A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction;
An award for bravery
Grant
To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
Wherefore did God grant me my request.
Award
Something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery;
The prize was a free trip to Europe
Grant
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.
Award
Give, especially as a reward;
Bestow honors and prizes at graduation
Grant
To assent; to consent.
Award
Give on the basis of merit;
Funds are granted to qualified researchers
Grant
The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
Award
Bestow an honor upon
Grant
The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
Grant
The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
Grant
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.
Grant
Any monetary aid
Grant
The act of providing a subsidy
Grant
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
Grant
Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)
Grant
United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)
Grant
18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
Grant
A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business;
He got the beer concession at the ball park
Grant
A right or privilege that has been granted
Grant
Let have;
Grant permission
Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison
Grant
Give on the basis of merit;
Funds are granted to qualified researchers
Grant
Be willing to concede;
I grant you this much
Grant
Allow to have;
Grant a privilege
Grant
Bestow, especially officially;
Grant a degree
Give a divorce
This bill grants us new rights
Grant
Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
Grant
Transfer by deed;
Grant land
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