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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ nominate someone else (i.e. there are multiple devs).
 
 ### Being added as a maintainer to an existing implementation
 
-At any point, a world maintainer can approve the addition of another world maintainer to their world.  
+At any point, a world maintainer can authorize the addition of another world maintainer to their world.  
 This can be done through an update of the [CODEOWNERS](/docs/CODEOWNERS) document.  
 One of the involved parties can open a pull request with a change to this document. This PR must then
 be approved by all of the other involved parties.