See Also: Grant(money)
grant(2)(dictionary)
GRANT(finance)
grant(1)(dictionary)
Rasmussen, Grant(medicine)
Grant (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Still, William Grant(encyclopedia)
Wood, Grant(encyclopedia)
Grant, Cary(dictionary)
Grant, Ulysses S.(dictionary)

grant(1) (iou)



grant noun. [gr¨»:nt] ME.
[from the verb.]
Consent, permission. ME-M17.
b. A promise. LME-L16.
c. Admission, acknowledgement. E16-L17.
The action of granting (a request etc.). LME.
Law Times The grant or refusal of an injunction upon a matter of law is appealable.
A formal gift or legal assignment of money, privilege, etc. LME.
R. Stuart Fifty years after the grant of the patent. Ld Macaulay He obtained a grant of all the lands..belonging to Jesuits.
b. The thing granted; esp. a sum of money given for a specific purpose. E19.
direct grant: see DIRECT adjective. J. Wain Till I go to college and my student grant comes through.
A. Hailey Our company does give grants for academic research.
Law. A transfer of (real) property by deed or other written instrument. L16.
A piece of land occupied by a specified person. Chiefly US, in place-names; spec. (the Grants, the New Hampshire Grants (Hist.), the area now forming the State of Vermont. E18.
Comb.: grant-aid verb & noun (a) verb trans. give financial assistance to (a school etc.); (b) noun= grant-in-aid below; grant-aided ppl adjective (of a school etc.) assisted by an allowance from government or official funds; grant-in-aid a sum given as a grant, esp. by an authority or institution to support research or education; grant-maintained ppl adjective (of a school) funded by central rather than local government, and self-governing.