grant

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
grant/ɡrɑːnt/

▶verb

• 1 agree to give or allow (something requested) to.

  ■ give (a right, property, etc.) formally or legally to.

• 2 agree or admit to (someone) that (something) is true.

▶noun

• 1 a sum of money given by a government or public body for a particular purpose.

• 2 formal the action of granting something.

• 3 Law a legal conveyance or formal conferment.

– phrases
take for granted

• 1 fail to appreciate through overfamiliarity.

• 2 (take something for granted) assume that something is true.

– derivatives
grantable adjective,
grantee noun (chiefly Law),
granter noun,
grantor noun (chiefly Law).

– origin ME: from OFr. granter ‘consent to support’, var. of creanter ‘to guarantee’, based on L. credere ‘entrust’.