The phrase "authorized to cut" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or authority is granted to perform a cutting action, such as in a workplace or procedural setting.
Example: "Only the supervisor is authorized to cut the budget for this project."
Alternatives: "permitted to cut" or "allowed to cut".
Under state statute, the governor is authorized to cut up to 5percentt of specific budget accounts, with some exceptions.
Yet neither the $68 million the governor is authorized to cut on his own nor the money saved by layoffs would address the current deficit in the $13.2 billion state budget.
On December 4, the last day the Department of Transportation was authorized to cut checks for highway and transit projects, President Obama signed a 1,300-page 1,300-pageon transportation infrastructure bill that renewed existing highway and transit programs.
And in California, where some 600 of the 1,100 local districts have shortened the calendar by up to five days over the past two years, lawmakers last week authorized them to cut seven days more if budgets get tighter.
The consultants from McKinsey issued specific budget recommendations for publications, and executives at some magazines, who asked not to be named as they were not authorized to discuss the cuts, said they were told last month that their budgets needed to shrink by 25percentt.
But according to interviews with several employees, all of whom insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter, the cuts stem from the weak trading environment as well as a desire to weed out underperforming workers as the year winds down.
In January, Barclays Capital cut 600 people, or more than 2 percent of its worldwide staff, citing a business slowdown, and recently cut more employees for "performance-related reasons," according to a person briefed on the cuts but not authorized to speak on the record.
The forester unilaterally declared that farmerplanters could not cut the trees until they were authorized to do so by the foresters.
"Those are the things that are appealing to me". The layoffs, which included Tribune Interactive's Los Angeles-based video and online content teams that operated separately from The Times, were due to a change in the company's business strategy, according to a source familiar with the cuts who was not authorized to speak publicly.
In 1809, the Legislature authorized the surveyors to "cut down trees and do other damage" for which owners would be later compensated.
22 -- President Clinton today authorized the Education Department to cut off federal funds to states that do not adopt a near-blanket policy of expelling for one year students who bring guns to school.
