Grant Definition

grănt

granted, grants

verb

granted, grants

To give (what is requested, as permission, etc.); assent to; agree to fulfill.

Webster's New World

To give or confer formally or according to legal procedure.

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To transfer (property) by a deed.

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To acknowledge for the sake of argument; admit as true without proof; concede.

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A transaction in which a grantor transfers a subset of his or her own rights in property; the rights so transferred.

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noun

grants

The act of granting.

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Something granted, as property, a tract of land, an exclusive right or power, money from a fund, etc.

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The document or provision in a document by which a grant is made.

American Heritage

A territorial subdivision in Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont.

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The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

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pronoun

An English surname and a Scottish clan name, from a nickname meaning "large".

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idiom

take for granted

to consider as true, already settled, requiring no special attention, etc.; accept as a matter of course

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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Grant

From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, grantier, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir ("to guarantee, assure, vouch for", see guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). More at guarantee, credit.

From Wiktionary
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 kerd- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition