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grant (grānt) Pronunciation Key
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.
Law
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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Language Translation for : Granting

Spanish:

dado que, en el supuesto de que,

German:

voraussetzen,

Japanese:

～とすれば

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