granter

Grant  (grnt), Cary Originally Archibald Alexander Leach. 1904-1986.

British-born American actor who was the epitome of the elegant leading man in films such as The Philadelphia Story (1940) and North by Northwest (1959).

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Grant, Ulysses Simpson Originally Hiram Ulysses Grant. 1822-1885.

The 18th President of the United States (1869-1877) and a Civil War general. After his victorious Vicksburg campaign (1862-1863), he was made commander in chief of the Union Army (1864) and accepted the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox (1865). Grant's two-term presidency was marred by widespread graft and corruption.

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grant  (grnt)

tr.v. grant·ed, grant·ing, grants

1. To consent to the fulfillment of: grant a request.

2. To accord as a favor, prerogative, or privilege: granted the franchise to all citizens.

3.

a. To bestow; confer: grant aid.

b. To transfer (property) by a deed.

4. To concede; acknowledge: I grant the genius of your plan, but you still will not find backers.

n.

1. The act of granting.

2.

a. Something granted.

b. A giving of funds for a specific purpose: federal grants for medical research.

3. Law

a. A transfer of property by deed.

b. The property so transferred.

c. The deed by which the property is so transferred.

4. One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.

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[Middle English granten, from Old French granter, variant of creanter, from Vulgar Latin *crdentre, to assure, from Latin crdns, crdent-, present participle of crdere, to believe; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.]

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granta·ble adj.

granter n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

granter - a person who grants or gives something individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" grantor - a person who makes a grant in legal form; "conveyed from grantor to grantee" withholder - a person who refrains from granting; "a withholder of payments"