The phrase "authorise payment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are giving permission or approval for a payment to be made, often in financial or business communications.
Example: "Please authorise payment for the invoice submitted last week so we can proceed with the order."
Alternatives: "approve payment" or "sanction payment".
Where that is the case and you make a claim for relief, the Inland Revenue will authorise payment of your pension without deduction of tax.
Two years later, on 14 May 2005, Goodman wrote again to Coulson asking him to authorise payment of £1,000 "to one of our Palace cops" for a new version of the same royal phone book.
25 The importance of the problem has led Medicare and Medicaid in the USA to recently authorise payment of treatment for adults diagnosed with unattended home sleep monitoring devices.
Once installed and linked to a credit card or bank account, the app will authorise payments in as little as one second.
In 2015, China will see the introduction of an app using facial recognition to authorise payments, meaning that people's features will become their PIN for purchases.
Transactions are authenticated by a fingerprint sensor on the phone, sending a onetime "token" via the shortrange NFC system to the retailer's terminal to authorise payments.
Tugendhat said Mr Horton, as the paper's sports editor, had been able to authorise payments to individuals of up to £500 without referring the matter to a higher authority.
"In light of the SFO's investigation extending to Petrofac's agents, it is not considered appropriate, at this point in time, for Petrofac to authorise payments of Urbania's outstanding invoice," they wrote.
If there is to be any reform, the most tricky issue to resolve will undoubtedly be payments: in the UK surrogates are supposed to be reimbursed for their expenses only (although in practice the English court can, and does, authorise payments which exceed expenses).
The lack of a fingerprint sensor is not a big issue right now, but biometric identification mechanisms are likely to become a mainstay of flagship smartphones going forward as more sites and services like PayPal adopt them as a way to securely login and authorise payments.
No hand waving to authorise payments – which kinda spoils the fun I think.
