award
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: academia
education
law
scholarly
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard.
Inflected forms:
form: awards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: awards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: awarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: awarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: awarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
pos: noun
examples: Citing the damages that Ms. Lewis and Mr. Heslin had requested, Mr. Jones called the award a “major victory” in a video posted on Infowars on Thursday night, even as he urged viewers to buy products from his website to stave off what he portrayed as financial ruin.
gloss: The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
pos: noun
gloss: Funding that has been granted for the conduct of a research project.
pos: noun
gloss: A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
pos: noun
gloss: A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: The AMIEU^([Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union]) first developed into a powerful organisation in the early years of the twentieth century, and after the first industry-wide collective agreement was made in 1911, collective bargaining prevailed in the industry until 1917, when the employers sought an award from the Queensland Industrial Court. The first award was issued on March 12, 1918.
A further 17 per cent responded that the agreement replaced ‘most’ aspects of the award, leaving the large majority (67 per cent) claiming that the agreement replaced only ‘some’ aspects of the award.
Employees whose pay is set by ‘award only’ are those who have their pay set by an award, and who are not paid more than the award rate of pay.
gloss: To determine; to make or grant an award.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To assert its control, Vietnam has since established Spratly Island as a township in Truòng Sa district, organized local elections and tours in the Spratlys, and has continued to award oil exploration contracts.
gloss: To give (an award).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
gloss: To give (a person) an award.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
gloss: To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new.
Power to award compensation
A Texas jury on Thursday awarded the parents of a child killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School more than $4 million in compensatory damages from the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, […]
gloss: (in an examination) To give marks for a correct answer.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: Do not award marks for data from previous questions.
Derived words: Academy Award
award ceremony
award-winning
book award
Darwin Award
preaward
awardable
awardee
awarder
awarding
awardment
misaward
reaward
unaward
unawarded
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قَرَار
roman: qarār
lang: Arabic
word: قرار
roman: qarār
lang: Bulgarian
word: отсъ́ждане
roman: otsǎ́ždane
lang: Bulgarian
word: реше́ние
roman: rešénie
lang: Catalan
word: veredicte
lang: Finnish
word: päätös
lang: German
word: Spruch
lang: German
word: Entscheid
lang: Italian
word: sentenza
lang: Portuguese
word: sentença
lang: Russian
word: реше́ние
roman: rešénije
lang: Russian
word: присужде́ние
roman: prisuždénije
lang: Spanish
word: laudo
lang: Telugu
word: తీర్పు
roman: tīrpu