The phrase "authorize a payment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when giving permission or approval for a financial transaction to be processed.
Example: "Please review the invoice and authorize a payment to the supplier by the end of the week."
Alternatives: "approve a payment" or "sanction a payment".
If it is more, the system will alert the user, who can then manually authorize a payment.
"If our board thought we would get a clear answer on Monday, it could authorize a payment on Monday," she said.
As I tried to explain that only she could authorize a payment, I realized how preposterous the suggestion must have sounded to her.
The payments services will know if you're logging in from a known device because they reside in the secure environment of the chip, so all you would need to do to identify yourself is enter a PIN code to authorize a payment.
James Murdoch told the panel that no one had ever told him about the extent of the hacking at The News of the World — not even in 2008, when he agreed to authorize a payment of more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a hacking victim, Gordon Taylor, against The News of the World.
You authorize a payment by holding your phone next to the unit; Visa is pushing the new system hard.
Because of SOX, many companies no longer allow the same manager who authorizes a payment to also sign the check.
After checking out a sample of the information on the CD, the German finance minister, Peer Steinbrück, authorized a payment of about 5 million euros ($7.3 million) for the information.
A.I.G. was never aware of this, never authorized a payment to anybody, and it never progressed beyond the fact that Leading Authorities passed on a list of names".
Last year, Mr. Motassadeq authorized a payment of 2,100 marks from Mr. Shehhi's account to Mr. Atta, and another for 5,000 marks to another suspected member of the Hamburg group, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who sought to enroll in Florida for flight instruction but was refused a visa by American consular officials.
Witness the problems that the state experienced last November when it couldn't issue checks to unemployed workers whose benefits had run out before Congress authorized a payment extension.
