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"Authorization" vs "Authorisation" - I'm in some real dilemma
North Americans use authorized, authorizing, authorizes, and authorization, while English speakers from outside the U.S. and Canada use authorised, authorising, authorises, and authorisation. Authorize is the older form, and it was standard even in British English until the second half of the 20th century.
Short alternatives of the word Authentication and the word …
As a programmer I use the word Authentication and the word Authorisation in my code. I'd like to find nice abbreviations or alternative words for each of them that . are not ambiguous and ; has reasonably large 'psychological distance' between. i.e. they don't look too similar; i.e 'Auth' is not OK because it is ambiguous.
Is it correct to say "I kindly request you to..."?
2012年12月31日 · This is a different and fairly widely-used usage, as tchrist says in his answer. Indeed, in 'would you kindly just give up your seat for my great-grandmother', kindly and just are two of the hedging devices (pragmatic markers subset politeness) (the third device is the would you construction) (and the fourth, the winning smile).
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2014年10月16日 · You're very close, and Josh gets even closer. I'll wait until you give [me] the green light. CID:. give somebody/something the green light
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On the other hand, remit is more often used where the scope of the authorisation is more relevant. Thus you'll often come across "We don't have a mandate for that" (we haven't been authorised), and "That's outside our remit" (that goes beyond what we've been authorised to do). You won't often hear either word used in a context where the ...
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2013年10月28日 · The user swipes the card through a slot, and the transaction can be authorised without further electronic interaction. This system is not very secure, because the data on the stripe is very easy to copy, and the 'off-line' authorisation relies simply on the old-fashioned method of the cashier checking the customer's signature.