granting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of grant

noun

1. The act by which something is granted.

   “[…] after grantings, revokings, and re-grantings, of the liberty of Yarmouth […]”

   “We want to make it clear that […] the Department of Agriculture has no responsibility and takes no position with regard to the grantings of individual export licenses or to whom such licenses are granted.”