award
verb
[ əˈwɔːd ]
• give or order the giving of (something) as an official payment, compensation, or prize to (someone).
• "he was awarded the Military Cross"
Similar:
give,
grant,
confer on,
present to,
bestow on,
gift with,
furnish with,
endow with,
decorate with,
accord,
assign,
apportion,
allot,
allocate,
allow,
award
noun
• a prize or other mark of recognition given in honour of an achievement.
• "the company's annual award for high-quality service"
Origin:
late 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.
