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Hartwig said city staff applied for the grant last year, but Environmental Protection Agency staff said the city needs a community assessment before the grant could be awarded.

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  1. transitive verb To consent to the fulfillment of: grant a request.
  2. transitive verb To accord as a favor, prerogative, or privilege: granted the franchise to all citizens.
  3. transitive verb To bestow; confer: grant aid.
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  • Hartwig said city staff applied for the grant last year, but Environmental Protection Agency staff said the city needs a community assessment before the grant could be awarded. —  Fremont Tribune News Articles
  • The center must match "dollar for dollar" to be able to access the money once the grant is awarded, said Steven R. Spochart, chairman of the shelter's board of directors and redevelopment authority executive director. —  News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
  • The first successful settlement of Sao Tome was established in 1493 by Alvaro Caminha, who received the land as a grant from the Portuguese crown.
  • Manny Arvon, superintendent of Berkeley County Schools said that the grant was a commitment from the SBA for $25 million to go toward construction of a new $53 million high school to be built at the Spring Mills campus near Potomack Intermediate and Spring Mills Middle School. —  The Journal
  • Drae Perkins, director of Treatment on Demand, which along with YMCA SouthCoast coordinates the street outreach team, said losing the grant will be a setback. —  SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines
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  1. Middle English granten, from Old French granter, variant of creanter, from Vulgar Latin *crēdentāre, to assure, from Latin crēdēns, crēdent-, present participle of crēdere, to believe; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also graunt; from Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Old French granter, graanter, graaunter, graunter, grantier (Anglo-French granter, graunter), greanter, the same (with irreg. change of c to g, perhaps due to association with Old French garantir, guarantee) as Old French craanter, creanter, cranter, promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify, from Middle Latin as if *credentare (found only in the form creantare, a reflex of the Old French), from Latin creden(t-)s (later Old French creant), present participle of credere, believe, trust: see credent, credit, creant, creance.
  2. from Middle English grant, graunt, from Old French grant, graant, graunt, greant, creant, crant, masculine (also graante, creante, crante, feminine) (Middle Latin grantum), a promise, assurance, engagement; from the verb.
 

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