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auth

noun

Definitions

  1. Abbreviation of authentication.

  2. Abbreviation of authorization.

    • “I once had to do a prior auth for United for a glass bottle,” a medical resident wrote. “The compounded intranasal midazolam was covered, but the glass bottle it came in was not.”

  3. Abbreviation of authoritarian.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To authenticate.

      • You can't post messages on the site unless you're authed.

    2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

authcom

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for auth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA