GRANT

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grant I. verb tranzitiv

1. a admite, a aproba (o cerere); a îndeplini (o rugăminte);

to grant (smb.) a favour a acorda (cuiva) o favoare.

2. (that, to do) a permite (să), a îngădui (să), a încuviinţa (să); a consimţi (la), a-şi da asentimentul (la);

God grant that! să dea Dumuezeu să!

3. a recunoaşte (justeţea unui argument sau a unei afirmaţii);

I grant you that he is lazy, but recunosc că e leneş, dar; e leneş, ce-i drept, dar;

granting it (to) be true admiţând că e adevărat;

to take for granted a crede fără probe, a Iua drept bun; a considera de la sine înţeles, a fi încrezător;

to take too much for granted a fi prezumţios, a fi prea încrezător în sine.

4. (jur.) a dona, a dărui; a cesiona; a transfera, a transmite (un bun).

5. a acorda, a aloca (o subvenţie, un împrumut, o rentă etc.);

◊ (înv.) granted! nu face nimic! cu plăcere! (ca răspuns la I beg your pardon).

grant II. substantiv

1. aprobare, admitere (a unei cereri).

2. permisiune, autorizaţie, încuviinţare.

3. acordare, alocare (a unei subvenţii, a unui împrumut etc.).

4. dar; donaţie; subvenţie, subsidiu; dotaţie;

government grant subvenţie acordată de stat şcolilor elementare;

to make a grant to smb. a acorda cuiva o subvenţie.

5. concesie, favoare, hatâr.

6. (jur.) donaţie, cesiune, transmisiune (prin act autentic, a unui bun).

7. (jur.) act de donaţie / cesiune / de transmisiune.

8. (jur.) lucru donat, donaţie.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

If the public felt that their wills were in safe keeping, and took it for granted that the office was not to be made better, who was the worse for it?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

If any need I shall write, so that, if you do not hear from me, take it for granted that I am simply waiting for news.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

"Because of all Wizards you are the greatest, and alone have power to grant my request," answered the Lion.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

I hoped to induce you to grant me a boat with which I could pursue my enemy.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And now, added Mrs. Grant, I have thought of something to make it complete.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Two such could never be granted.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“Well, sir,” he said, “here we are, and God grant there be nothing wrong.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The find also grants insight into the evolution of feathers in birds.

(Scientists find dinosaur feathers preserved in amber, Wikinews)

I wonder how you will answer me a year hence, should I ask a favour it does not suit your convenience or pleasure to grant.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

If Mrs Clay were a very beautiful woman, I grant you, it might be wrong to have her so much with me; not that anything in the world, I am sure, would induce my father to make a degrading match, but he might be rendered unhappy.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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