to give as due or merited; assign or bestow: to award prizes.
to bestow by judicial decree; assign or appoint by deliberate judgment, as in arbitration: The plaintiff was awarded damages of $100,000.
noun
something awarded, as a payment or medal.
Law.
a decision after consideration; a judicial sentence.
the decision of arbitrators on a matter submitted to them.
Origin of award
1250–1300; (v.) Middle English awarden<Anglo-French awarder, equivalent to a-a-4 + warder ≪ Germanic; compare Old English weardian to guard, ward; (noun) Middle English <Anglo-French, derivative of awarder
OTHER WORDS FROM award
a·ward·a·bil·i·ty,nouna·ward·a·ble,adverba·ward·er,nounmis·a·ward,verb (used with object)
That might be just what the 72-year-old award show needs to stave off irrelevance.
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In recent years, you have publicly criticized the industry, especially in relation to the awards and rankings that have come to dominate it.
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Weber regularly contributes to major newspapers and magazines, such as National Geographic, GEO, and Die Zeit, and has won a number of awards for his writing.
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What is clear, however, is that when the foundation does grant awards again, the process will likely be quite different.
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Her total numbers probably don’t support winning the award, but other than Dangerfield, it’s hard to point to a rookie who has had a greater impact on a playoff-bound team.
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But I had won the British Award, Best Foreign Actor, so I went.
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The award surprised Lewis, but it also struck the right note.
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His photography has won more than a hundred awards, including the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography.
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He declined to award £30 to Miss Manners for her taxi journey but awarded her £10 travel expenses.
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The time is ripe—and right—for action to begin that would divest Russia of the World Cup and award it to another nation.
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Both these gentlemen, having been members of jury, were not allowed to compete for an award.
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The use of heroic metre in prize-poems was traditional; hence the award was an enviable tribute to the blank-verse of Timbuctoo.
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It is not the occasion to award praise or pronounce condemnation.
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They like to pay compliments, but they like not to award dues.
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Yet a perfectly dispassionate inquirer may perhaps think it by no means clear that the award of execution was illegal.
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British Dictionary definitions for award
award
/ (əˈwɔːd) /
verb(tr)
to give (something due), esp as a reward for meritto award prizes
lawto declare to be entitled, as by decision of a court of law or an arbitrator
noun
something awarded, such as a prize or medalan award for bravery
(in Australia and New Zealand) the amount of an award wage (esp in the phrase above award)
law
the decision of an arbitrator
a grant made by a court of law, esp of damages in a civil action
Derived forms of award
awardable, adjectiveawardee, nounawarder, noun
Word Origin for award
C14: from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Old Northern French eswarder to decide after investigation, from es-ex-1 + warder to observe; see ward