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The process whereby a merchant (or a cardholder through an ATM) requests permission from the Card Issuer for the card to be used for a particular transaction
Authorisation confirms that the card number is valid and that the funds were available at the time the transaction took place It is not a guarantee of payment
official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times"
The level of functionality and access to PDM-managed information granted to a specific user Examples of access authorisation include read, write, update, copy, and view Examples of functional authorisation include the ability to add users, review or release items, or launch an application
Positive determination by the manager of an information resource that a specific individual may access that information resource, or validation that a positively identified user has the need and the manager's permission to access the resource
To convey official sanction, access, or legal power to an entity
Refers to the act of allowing an individual, on the ICQ program, to be on an individuals Contact List as a Friend
A process to grant rights to a person for accessing data or using specific information resources
a document giving an official instruction or command
the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant
The level of functionality and access to PDM-managed information granted a specific user Examples of access authorisation include read, write, update, copy, and view Examples of functional authorisation include the ability to add users, review or release items, or launch an application
the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"
Deciding whether a user has access to an application
{i} official permission; permit; empowerment; mandate; consent (also authorization)
The process by which organisations are vetted and licensed to conduct investment business under the Financial Services Act 1986 Such organisations are known as Authorised Persons
The process of determining what types of activities a user is permitted to undertake Usually, authorization is in the context of authentication: once you have authenticated a user, they may be authorized for different types of access or activity
The granting to a user, a program, or a process the right of access
Every shop has a different limit for the amount of money you can spend on a card in the shop without it being checked first with the issuer When you buy things which are more than this limit, the sale has to be authorised by the card issuer This can either be done by telephone or electronically when the card is swiped through the till by the shop assistant In this way, stolen cards are caught and cardholders are stopped from going over their credit limit Sometimes to authorise the transaction, the issuer needs to check the cardholder's identity Some cards, for example Electron (Visa) and Solo (Switch), always require authorisation whatever the amount
alternative spelling of authorization
Approval or guarantee given by an issuer to a user to honour a transaction (1997, Allen)
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An act of authorizing
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Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose

We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.

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Permission

I've got authorization. Call the office and you'll see.

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The permission to use a specific resource; access control
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{n} an establishment by authority
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the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant
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A law creating a program and out lining funding The authorization to actually draw funds from the Treasury and the amount to be drawn are established by an appropriation
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A process defined in operations regulations whereby a transaction is approved by or on behalf of an issuer; commonly understood to be receiving of a sales validation by the merchant, by telephone, or authorization terminal
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formal sanction, permission or warrant
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Basic, substantive legislation which establishes or continues the legal operation of a federal program or agency, either indefinitely or for a specific period of time, or which sanctions a particular type of obligation or expenditure within a program An authorization may set appropriation limits See "Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991"
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Process of deciding if a requesting device is allowed to have access to a service on another device Authorization always includes authentication
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The process of determining, by evaluating applicable access control information, whether a subject is allowed to have the specified types of access to a particular resource Usually, authorization is in the context of authentication Once a subject is authenticated, it may be authorized to perform different types of access
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In relation to computers, especially to remote computers on a network open to more than one person, the right granted to an individual to use the system and the data stored on it Authorization is typically set up by a system administrator, Web master, or site owner and checked and cleared by the computer This requires that the user provide some type of identification, such as a code number or a password, that the computer can verify against its internal records Also called permission or privilege
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Positive determination by the owner of an information resource that a specific individual may access that information resource, or validation that a positively identified user has the need and the owner's permission to access the resource
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– process of verifying the credit card used for the purchase has available credit, is not reported lost or stolen, and that the purchase is not outside of normal spending habits for that card An authorization response will be either: Approval, Decline or Referral (issuing bank must be contacted before transaction can be completed)
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The granting of rights, including the ability to access specific information or resources
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The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant
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The process whereby a transaction is approved by an issuing bank, authorized agent, or Visa/MasterCard on behalf of that issuer, before the transaction is completed by the merchant via telephone or terminal Top of page
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The process of checking the validity and available balance of a customer's credit card before the transaction can be accepted
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The process of verifying that a credit card has sufficient funds (credit) available to cover the amount of the transaction The authorization also validates the credit card An authorization is obtained for every sale
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official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times"
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In NET Framework security, the process of determining whether a principal is allowed to perform a requested action Authorization occurs after authentication and uses information about the principal's identity to determine the resources a principal can access See also: authentication, principal
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This is a process that assesses transaction risk, confirms that a given transaction does not raise the account holder's debt above the account's credit limit and reserves the specified amount of credit
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The granting of rights [x930: 3][x957] Verification that a digitally signed transaction is acceptable according to the rules and limits of the parties involved [X945][x945] (includes authentication, authorization certificate, authorization procedure, authorized signatory, signatory authority)
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The act of authorizing
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the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"
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The power or right to give orders
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The process of deciding if device X is allowed to have access to service Y This is where the concept of trusted exists Trusted devices (the device is authenticated and indicated as "trusted"), are allowed access to services Untrusted or unknown devices may require authorization based on user interaction before it is allowed access to the services This does not principally exclude that the authorization maight be give by an application automatically Authorization always includes authentication
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{i} official permission; permit; empowerment; mandate; consent (also authorisation)
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The act of insuring that the cardholder has adequate funds available against their line of credit A positive authorization results in an authorization code being generated, and those funds being set aside The cardholder's available credit limit is reduced by the authorized amount
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Authorization is the substantive legislation that establishes the purpose and guidelines for a given activity and usually sets a limit on the amount that can be appropriated or spent The authorization does not provide actual dollars for a program
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The process of giving someone permission to do or have something In multi-user computer systems, a system administrator defines for the system which users are allowed access to the system and what privileges of use (such as access to which file directories, hours of access, amount of allocated storage space, and so forth) Assuming that someone has logged in to a computer operating system or application, the system or application may want to identify what resources the user can be given during this session Thus, authorization is sometimes seen as both the preliminary setting up of permissions by a system administrator and the actual checking of the permission values that have been set up when a user is getting access
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Legislation that establishes or continues the legal operation of a federal program or agency, either indefinitely or for a specific period of time, or sanctions a particular type of obligation or expenditure The legislation indicates conditions under which the program or agency acts and authorizes appropriations, which is normally a prerequisite for an appropriation bill Authorizations specify how appropriated funds are to be used and may provide permanent appropriations Under the rules of both houses, the appropriation for a program or agency may not be considered until its authorization has been considered
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official permission to do something, or the document giving this permission = authority
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The process by which access to a method or resource is determined Authorization in the J2EE platform depends upon the determination of whether the principal associated with a request through authentication is in a given security role A security role is a logical grouping of users defined by the person who assembles the application A deployer maps security roles to security identities Security identities may be principals or groups in the operational environment
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a document giving an official instruction or command
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The process of verifying the credit card has sufficient funds (credit) available to cover the amount of the transaction An authorization is obtained for every sale
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A statute or legislation that establishes or continues a federal program or agency An authorization is normally prerequisite to consideration and enactment of an appropriation act For some programs, the authorization itself provides the authority to incur obligations and make payments [Back to top]
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