awarding (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *awarding*:
NOUN	act	awarding, award	a grant made by a law court

awarding > pronunciation
Sounds	ahwao'rdihng
Rhymes	abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng...

English > *awarding*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	A grant made by a law court.
Example	"he criticized the awarding of compensation by the court"
Synonym	award
Category	law, jurisprudence	The collection of rules imposed by authority
Narrower	addiction	(Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor)
Broader	grant, subsidization, subsidisation	The act of providing a subsidy
Spanish	concesión
Catalan	cessió

HyperDic: awarding