award
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award
- /əˈwɔːd/ UK
- /əˈwɔɹd/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d
Where it comes from
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.
noun awards
- A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted. 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.
- The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
- Funding that has been granted for the conduct of a research project.
- A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
- A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award. 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 s
verb awards · awarding · awarded
- To determine; to make or grant an award. 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.
- To give (an award). Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.
- To give (a person) an award. He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case. The arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
- (in an examination) To give marks for a correct answer. Do not award marks for data from previous questions.
