1. Let have; give the right to; give the opportunity or permission to
   "grant permission"; "grant a privilege";
   - allow, accord, allot
    
2. Give as judged due or on the basis of merit
   "Funds are granted to qualified researchers";
   - award
    
3. Allow, esp. in an official capacity
   "grant a degree"; "This bill grants us new rights";
   - give
    
4. Be willing to admit or forced to agree
   "I grant you this much";
   - concede, yield
    
5. Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
   "The treaty granted independence to the colony";
   - concede, yield, cede
    
6. Transfer by deed
   "grant land";
   - deed over

1. Any monetary aid
   "The scientist received a substantial grant to fund her climate change research"
    
2. The act of providing a subsidy
   "The government's grant to the renewable energy sector boosted innovation";
   - subsidization, subsidisation [Brit]
    
3. (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
   "The grant of land to the university was formalized in a legal document";
   - assignment
    
4. A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
   "The company received a grant to operate food services in the airport";
   - concession
    
5. A right or privilege that has been granted
   "The research team received a grant to continue their work"

1. 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
   - Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Hiram Ulysses Grant, President Grant
    
2. United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)
   - Cary Grant
    
3. Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)
   - Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow Grant

Derived forms: grants, Grants, granting, granted

Type of: actor, agree, aid, allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, assistance, Chief Executive, concord, concur, contract, economic aid, economic assistance, financial aid, financial assistance, full general, general, gift, give, histrion [archaic], hold, painter, parceling [US], parcelling, player, POTUS [US, informal], present, President, President of the United States, right, role player, thesp [Brit, informal], thespian, transferred possession, transferred property, United States President

Part of: Bloomsbury Group

Encyclopedia: Grant, Norman