Dictionary Definition
grant
Noun
1 any monetary aid
2 the act of providing a subsidy [syn: subsidization, subsidisation]
3 (law) a transfer of property by deed of
conveyance [syn: assignment]
4 Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and
member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978) [syn: Duncan
Grant,
Duncan James Corrow Grant]
5 United States actor (born in England) who was
the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986) [syn: Cary
Grant]
6 18th President of the United States; commander
of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885) [syn:
Ulysses
Grant, Ulysses S.
Grant, Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Hiram
Ulysses Grant, President
Grant]
7 a contract granting the right to operate a
subsidiary business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park"
[syn: concession]
8 a right or privilege that has been
granted
Verb
1 let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was
allowed few visitors in prison" [syn: allow] [ant: deny]
2 give on the basis of merit; "Funds are granted
to qualified researchers" [syn: award]
5 bestow, especially officially; "grant a
degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights" [syn:
give]
7 transfer by deed; "grant land" [syn: deed
over]
User Contributed Dictionary
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English
Extensive Definition
Grant may refer
to:
Funding
- Grant writing
- Grant (money), a financial aid
- Grant (research), for scientific research
- Categorical grant
- Block grant
- Federal grant
- Land grant, a gift of land from a government or royalty in exchange for service
Places
Canada
- Grant Land, northern lobe of Ellesmere Island
United Kingdom
- Soy (also known as Grantown), Strathspey, Scotland
- Castle Grant, 1.5 miles North of Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland
United States
- Grant, Alabama
- Grant, Colorado
- Grant, Florida
- Grant, Iowa
- Grant, Michigan
- Grant, Minnesota
- Grant, Nebraska
- Grant, Wisconsin (six towns)
- Grant City, Missouri
- Grant City, Staten Island
- Grant Park, Illinois
- Grant Park (Chicago)
- Grant Town, West Virginia
- Grant Township, Michigan (eleven townships)
- Grant Township, Pennsylvania
- Grants, New Mexico
- U.S. Grant Bridge over Ohio River and Scioto River
- Grant is Great Township, New York
Businesses
- W. T. Grant variety store, a chain of mass-merchandise stores
- William Grant & Sons, a Scotch whisky distilling company
Military History
- USS Albert W. Grant (DD-649), a US Navy destroyer
- M3 Lee, an American tank, a modified version was called the Grant
Other
- Grant (automobile), a defunct Findlay, Ohio auto manufacturer
- In Search of the Castaways (originally titled The Children of Captain Grant), a novel by Jules Verne
- United States fifty-dollar bill bearing a portrait of President S. Grant
- "Grant", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel
People
- Grant (name)
- Ulysses S. Grant, General-in-chief of the Union Army during the American Civil War and 18th president of the USA
- Avram Grant, Israeli football coach.
- Gogi Grant, US singer
- Hugh Grant, UK actor
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
OK, accede to, accept, accommodation, accord, accord to, accordance, acknowledge, administer, admit, admit everything, admit
exceptions, afford, agree
provisionally, agree to, aid, alimony, allocate, allot, allotment, allow, allow for, allowance, alms, annuity, approve, approve of, assent, assent grudgingly,
assign, assistance, assume, avow, award, awarding, be afraid, be
willing, believe,
benefaction,
bequest, bestow, bestow on, bestowal, bestowment, blank check,
bounty, brevet, carte blanche, cede, cession, charity, charter, circumscription, come
clean, communicate,
communication,
concede, conceive, concession, conclude, condescend, confer, conferment, conferral, confess, connive at, consent, consent to, consent to
silently, consider,
consider the circumstances, consider the source, contribution, cop a plea,
copyright, daresay, deal, deal out, deduce, deem, deign, deliverance, delivery, depletion allowance,
diploma, discount, dish out, dispensation, dispense, disregard, distribute, divine, dole, dole out, donate, donation, dream, endorse, endowment, exception, exemption, expect, express general
agreement, extend,
extenuating circumstances, fancy, favor, feel, fellowship, financial
assistance, fork out, franchise, freedom, furnish, furnishment, gather, gift, gift with, gifting, give, give consent, give freely,
give leave, give out, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the
word, give up, giving, go
along with, grain of salt, grant-in-aid, granting, guaranteed annual
income, hand out, handout, have no objection,
heap, hedge, hedging, help, help to, hold with, imagine, immunity, impart, impartation, impartment, indulgence, infer, investiture, issue, lavish, leave, let, let be, let have, let on,
letters patent, liberality, liberty, license, lift temporarily,
limitation, make
allowance for, make possible, mental reservation, mete, mete out, modification, nod, nod assent, not oppose, not
refuse, offer, okay, old-age insurance, open up,
opine, out with it,
own, own up, patent, pecuniary aid, pension, permit, plead guilty, pour, prefigure, present, presentation, presentment, presume, presuppose, presurmise, price support,
privilege, proffer, provide for, provision, provisionally
accept, public assistance, public welfare, qualification, rain, ratify, reckon, recognize, relax, relax the condition,
release, relief, relinquish, render, repute, reservation, restriction, retirement
benefits, royal grant, salvo, sanction, say, say aye, say the word, say yes,
scholarship,
serve, set aside, shell
out, shower, slip, snow, special case, special favor,
special treatment, specialness, specification, spill, spill it, spit it out,
stipend, subscription, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, support, suppose, surmise, surrender, suspect, take, take account of, take for,
take for granted, take into account, take into consideration, take
it, take kindly to, take to be, tax benefit, tell all, tell the
truth, tender, think, understand, vote
affirmatively, vote aye, vouchsafe, vouchsafement, waive, waiver, warrant, welfare, welfare aid, welfare
payments, wink at, yield,
yield assent