award
verb/əˈwɔːd/
/əˈwɔːrd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they award | /əˈwɔːd/ /əˈwɔːrd/ |
| he / she / it awards | /əˈwɔːdz/ /əˈwɔːrdz/ |
| past simple awarded | /əˈwɔːdɪd/ /əˈwɔːrdɪd/ |
| past participle awarded | /əˈwɔːdɪd/ /əˈwɔːrdɪd/ |
| -ing form awarding | /əˈwɔːdɪŋ/ /əˈwɔːrdɪŋ/ |
- to make an official decision to give something to somebody as a payment, prize, contract, etc.
- award something Knowing why and how corporations award contracts is vitally important.
- award something to somebody The judges awarded equal points to both finalists.
- award somebody something The judges awarded both finalists equal points.
- He was awarded damages of £50 000.
- He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
- The referee awarded a penalty against them.
Extra ExamplesTopics Preferences and decisionsb1- The prize is awarded annually for the best new building.
- He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize with Alex Mueller.
- Promotions were automatically awarded to senior officials.
- She mentally awarded herself top marks for staying cool under pressure.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- automatically
- jointly
- posthumously
- …
- to
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘issue a judicial decision’, also denoting the decision itself): from Anglo-Norman French awarder, variant of Old French esguarder ‘consider, ordain’, from es- (from Latin ex ‘thoroughly’) + guarder ‘watch (over)’, based on a word of Germanic origin related to ward; compare with guard.
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