Grant vs. Revoke — What's the Difference?

To allow or consent to the fulfillment of (something requested)

In trick-taking card games, a revoke (or renege, or ) is a violation of the rules regarding the play of tricks serious enough to render the round invalid. A revoke is a violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, and is considered a minor offense when unintentional.

To give or confer officially or formally

To invalidate or cause to no longer be in effect, as by voiding or canceling

To transfer (property) by a deed.

To fail to follow suit in cards when required and able to do so.

To concede; acknowledge

Failure to follow suit in a card game when required and able to do so.

The act of granting.

(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

Something granted, especially a giving of funds for a specific purpose

(intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.

The document or provision in a document by which a grant is made.

(obsolete) To call or bring back.

One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.

(obsolete) To hold back.

(ditransitive) to give (permission or wish)

(obsolete) To move (something) back or away.

(ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.en

(obsolete) To call back to mind.

(transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.

The act of revoking in a game of cards.

(intransitive) To assent; to consent.

A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.

The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.

The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

To call or bring back; to recall.

The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.

(law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.

To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.

To draw back; to withdraw.

(informal) An application for a grant monetary boon to aid research or the like.

To call back to mind; to recollect.

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; - usually in answer to petition.

To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.

To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.

The act of revoking.

To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.

The mistake of not following suit when able to do so

To assent; to consent.

Fail to follow suit when able and required to do so

The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

Annul by recalling or rescinding;

The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

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.

Any monetary aid

The act of providing a subsidy

(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)

United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)

18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)

A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business;

A right or privilege that has been granted

Let have;

Give on the basis of merit;

Be willing to concede;

Allow to have;

Bestow, especially officially;

Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

Transfer by deed;