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tr.v. grant·ed, grant·ing, grants

To consent to the fulfillment of: grant a request.
To accord as a favor, prerogative, or privilege: granted the franchise to all citizens.
1. To bestow; confer: grant aid.
2. To transfer (property) by a deed.
To concede; acknowledge: I grant the genius of your plan, but you still will not find backers.

The act of granting.
1. Something granted.
2. A giving of funds for a specific purpose: federal grants for medical research.
3. A transfer of property by deed.
4. The property so transferred.
5. The deed by which the property is so transferred.
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1. A transfer of property by deed.
2. The property so transferred.
3. The deed by which the property is so transferred.
One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.

[Middle English granten, from Old French granter, variant of creanter, from Vulgar Latin *crēdentāre, to assure, from Latin crēdēns, crēdent-, present participle of crēdere, to believe; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.]

grant'a·ble adj., grant'er n.

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granted
adjective
acknowledged as a supposition; "given the engine's condition, it is a wonder that it started" [syn: given]

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ˈgranted, *ˈgranting

(even) if; assuming
Example: Granted that you are right, we will have to move fast.

Arabic:	لِنَفْتَرِض أن
Chinese (Simplified):	假定
Chinese (Traditional):	假定
Czech:	za předpokladu, připusťme
Danish:	hvis
Estonian:	oletades
Finnish:	olettaen
French:	en admettant que
German:	voraussetzen
Greek:	αν υποθέσουμε
Hungarian:	feltéve, hogy
Icelandic:	taka e-ð sem gefið
Indonesian:	seandainya
Italian:	ammesso

Japanese:	～とすれば
Latvian:	pat ja; pieņemot, ka
Lithuanian:	(net) jeigu laikytume
Norwegian:	sett at
Polish:	założywszy
Portuguese (Brazil):	admitindo
Portuguese (Portugal):	assumindo
Romanian:	presupunând că
Russian:	при условии
Slovak:	za predpokladu, i keď
Slovenian:	če vzamemo, da
Spanish:	dado que, en el supuesto de que
Swedish:	även om, förutsatt att
Turkish:	eğer; farzedelim ki