authorization
nounid
1606·updated May 9, 2026verified
The process of granting access privileges to a user, program, or process by a person that has the authority to grant such access.
polysemous
Attested in
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Classifications
Entity Type
Process100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1
Sensitivity
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- synonym
- authorisationauthoritydominanceempowermentmandatepotencysanctionsay-so
- alternatephrasing
- Authorization
- plural
- authorizations
- possessive
- authorization's
- pluralpossessive
- authorizations'
Framework definitions
- §1
- Authorization is the approval, permission, or empowerment for someone or something to do something.
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1 · extended_definition_available
- A process of determining, by evaluating applicable access control information, whether a subject is allowed to have the specified types of access to a particular resource.
- §1
- Official permission or approval.
- §1
- Access privileges granted to a user, program, or process or the act of granting those privileges.
- §1
- Access privileges granted to a user, program, or process or the act of granting those privileges.
- §1
- the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant
- §2
- official permission or approval
- §3
- the power or right to give orders or make decisions
- §4
- a document giving an official instruction or command
- §1 · glossary
- The process of granting access privileges to a user, program, or process by a person that has the authority to grant such access.Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
- §1 · legacy_primary
- Access privileges granted to a user, program, or process or the act of granting those privileges.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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Incoming relationships
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