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Noun grant has 8 senses
- grant - any monetary aid
--1 is a kind of aid, economic aid
--1 has particulars: subsidy; grant-in-aid
- grant, subsidization, subsidisation - the act of providing a subsidy
--2 is a kind of allotment, apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation
--2 has particulars: award, awarding; block grant; grant-in-aid
- grant, assignment - (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
--3 is a kind of transferred property, transferred possession
--3 has particulars: appanage, apanage; land grant
- Grant, Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow Grant - Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)
--4 is a kind of painter
--4 is a member of Bloomsbury Group
- Grant, Cary Grant - United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)
--5 is a kind of actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player
- Grant, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Hiram Ulysses Grant, President Grant - 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
--6 is a kind of general, full general; President of the United States, United States President, President, Chief Executive
- concession, grant - a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park"
--7 is a kind of contract
--7 has particulars: franchise
- grant - a right or privilege that has been granted
--8 is a kind of right
Verb grant has 7 senses
- allow, grant - let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"
--1 is one way to give
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody something
- award, grant - give on the basis of merit; "Funds are granted to qualified researchers"
--2 is one way to allocate, apportion
Sample sentences:
They grant the money to them
They grant them the money
- concede, yield, grant - be willing to concede; "I grant you this much"
--3 is one way to agree, hold, concur, concord
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody
- accord, allot, grant - allow to have; "grant a privilege"
--4 is one way to give
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- grant, give - bestow, especially officially; "grant a degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- concede, yield, cede, grant - give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
--6 is one way to give
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- grant, deed over - transfer by deed; "grant land"
--7 is one way to give, gift, present
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
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