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Definition of awarding : of Award

Synonyms:

honour, honor, laurels, prize, award, accolade

doling, presenting, endowing, bestowing, expending, rendering, lavishing, sending, supplying, providing, giving, dispensing, paying, contributing, attributing, delivering, rationing, granting, imparting, lending, offering, showering, assisting, funding, donating, disbursing, pledging, ascribing, allotting, allowing, furnishing, assigning, tendering, sharing, submitting, helping, devoting, extending, bequeathing, serving, consigning

inducing, enticing, tipping, remunerating, tempting, rewarding, honoring, sweetening, luring, compensating, treating

Usage examples:

• Being persuaded, then, that I have injured no one, I am far from intending to injure myself, and of pronouncing against myself that I am deserving of punishment, and from awarding myself any thing of the kind. - "Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates", Plato.
• Someone was making a speech- they were awarding some kind of prize for first man and there was applause and they were waiting for Orville to get up. - "First Man", Clyde Brown.
• 19. Young men within the College walls are incited to good conduct and diligence, by the system of awarding parts, as they are called, at the exhibitions which take place each year, and at the annual Commencement. - "A Collection of College Words and Customs", Benjamin Homer Hall.