awarded
Meaning of awarded
- give or order the giving of (something) as an official payment, compensation, or prize to (someone).
he was awarded the Military Cross
a 3.5 per cent pay rise was awarded to staff
late Middle English (in the sense ‘issue a judicial decision’, also denoting the decision itself): from Anglo-Norman French awarder, variant of Old French esguarder ‘consider, ordain’, from es- (from Latin ex ‘thoroughly’) + guarder ‘watch (over)’, based on a word of Germanic origin related to ward; compare with guard.
Information about awarded
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Hyphenation of awarded
awarded
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- awarded is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
awarded synonyms
Meaning freely transfer the possession of (something) to (someone):
Meaning agree to give or allow (something requested) to:
Meaning give or grant someone (power, status, or recognition):
Meaning allocate (a job or duty):
Meaning divide up and share out:
Meaning give or apportion (something) to someone:
Meaning distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose:
Meaning let (someone) have or do something:
Words that rhyme with awarded
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