award

Definition

  • verb: to give (a reward or prize) to someone or something
  • verb: to give by judicial decree or after careful consideration
  • synonyms: adjudge, determine, apportion

Examples

  • A prize will be 'awarded' to the student who sells the most tickets.

  • an 'awards' ceremony [=a ceremony at which awards are given out]

  • The company is 'awarding' the contract to the lowest bidder.

Movie quotes

  • (..) think will happen to us? What will happen? That's very easy Five, six years from now I'll be back to collect an award representing the surge in foreign coverage by local stations What will they call the award? (..)
    1987 Broadcast News
  • (..) Should l... Just a -second dissolve! We have three minutes! Why do you do this to me? Is it because I won an award? Homecoming... Norman Rockwell's enduring portrait The return of a fighting man has always been a moving ceremony of war (..)
    1987 Broadcast News