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award verb1 trans. LME.
[Anglo-Norman awarder var. (see A-7) of Old Northern French eswarder, Old French esguarder consider, ordain: see EX-1, WARD verb.]
gen. Decide or determine (something, that, to do) after consideration or deliberation. LME-E18.
Decide judicially (a process); issue judicially (a document etc.). LME.
Grant, assign, (to a person); order to be given as a payment, penalty, prize, etc. LME.
Shakespeare Merchant of Venice A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine, The court awards it and the law doth give it. G. B. Shaw A Court of Discipline, which awarded him two years imprisonment and fifty lashes. A. J. Cronin For his thesis on Dust Inhalation, he had been awarded his MD.
Sentence, appoint, (a person, to custody etc., to do). LME-M17.
awardable adjective able (esp. legally) to be awarded E17.
awar'dee noun a person to whom an award is given M20.
awarder noun M16.