0 present participle of grant --
1 to give or allow someone something, usually in an official way: --
2 to accept that something is true, often before expressing an opposite opinion: --
One of the problems with relationships is that after a while you just take each other for granted.
I didn't realize that Melanie hadn't been to college - I suppose I just took it for granted.
I grant you (= it is true that), it's a difficult situation but I feel sure he could have handled it more sensitively.
I grant that it must have been upsetting but even so I think she overreacted.
It is not clear, for example, whether the size of the labour movement is more important than party-labour ties in terms of granting policy influence.
Granting a central bank a high level of independence is neither a necessary, nor a sufficient, condition for solving the time-inconsistency problem.
Other parishes intermittently felt the burdens that could result from granting certificates, or showed awareness of them.
Granting veto power, however, entails the danger of a stalemate and thereby decreases rule efficiency.
This will require solving the navigation problems and granting greater autonomy to the rover.
However, a political system with multiple levels of authority can help reduce the uncertainties by granting conditional autonomy to lower-level authorities.
Anecdotal evidence also indicates that political candidates are spending more time than ever before granting interviews to and providing information to reporters from such media.
Their arsenal of powers included not only the granting of incremental increases for workers, but also most crucially the right to hire and fire.
