Awarding

verb

Word Frequency: 0.8

Definitions

1.verbTo give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge

"the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant"

2.verbTo determine; to make or grant an award.

3.verbTo give (an award).

"Four or five of these medals are awarded every year."

4.verbTo give (a person) an award.

"He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature."

5.nounThe act of bestowing an award.

6.nounThe act of giving by official decision such as giving a contract.

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