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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.
- 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
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).
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’.
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we often just take it for granted
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