awarding
Meaning of awarding
- give or order the giving of (something) as an official payment, compensation, or prize to (someone).
he was awarded the Military Cross
a 3.5 per cent pay rise was awarded to staff
late Middle English (in the sense ‘issue a judicial decision’, also denoting the decision itself): from Anglo-Norman French awarder, variant of Old French esguarder ‘consider, ordain’, from es- (from Latin ex ‘thoroughly’) + guarder ‘watch (over)’, based on a word of Germanic origin related to ward; compare with guard.
Information about awarding
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of awarding
award-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- awarding is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
awarding synonyms
Meaning award:
Meaning freely transfer the possession of (something) to (someone):
Meaning agree to give or allow (something requested) to:
Meaning give or grant someone (power, status, or recognition):
Meaning allocate (a job or duty):
Meaning divide up and share out:
Meaning give or apportion (something) to someone:
Meaning distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose:
Meaning let (someone) have or do something:
Translation of awarding
- Spanish: adjudicación
- Portuguese: adjudicação
- French: adjudication
- Italian: aggiudicazione
Anagrams of awarding
Words that rhyme with awarding
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