Definitions for "Authorize"
To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
Grant the right to perform certain acts.
grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"
To grant a principal access to certain information.
Keywords:  justify, furnish, ground
To justify; to furnish a ground for.
Keywords:  ssp, affiliate, asked, dollar, proceed
Step required for a Special SSP Event. These events do not have fixed SSP dollar amounts assigned to them—when setting them up, the Affiliate is asked to insert an proposed amount, which needs to be authorized by A-D before the SSP Event can proceed.