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AWARDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A grant made by a law court
Example:
he criticized the awarding of compensation by the court
Synonyms:
award; awarding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("awarding" is a kind of...):
grant; subsidisation; subsidization (the act of providing a subsidy)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "awarding"):
addiction ((Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb award
