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approval

[uh-proo-vuhl]

noun

the act of approving; approbation.

formal permission or sanction.

Philately. one of a group of selected stamps sent by a dealer to a prospective customer for examination and either purchase or return.

Idiom

on approval, without obligation to buy unless satisfactory to the customer upon trial or examination and, otherwise, returnable: We ship merchandise on approval.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Origin:
1680–90; approve + -al²

Related forms

non·ap·prov·al, noun

pre·ap·prov·al, noun

pro·ap·prov·al, adjective

re·ap·prov·al, noun

self-ap·prov·al, noun

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Presidents traditionally see their approval ratings jump at times of international crises and military operations.

They are referring specifically to budgetary approval.

The fourth part will take a long time to complete: it will involve new treaties and approval by parliaments and voters.

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Presidents traditionally see their approval ratings jump at times of international crises and military operations.

They are referring specifically to budgetary approval.

The fourth part will take a long time to complete: it will involve new treaties and approval by parliaments and voters.

Today the state's game commission gave preliminary approval for hunting deer hunting using the atlatl and dart.

The first drug from a transgenic animal may be nearing approval.

Gaines who would quietly look on with approval but not withhold a strong rumbling voice when it was needed.

The company combed its email logs to make sure no approval notice had been received.

Gallup has an interesting brief up about the relationship between presidential approval ratings and the stock market.

Position and renewal are contingent upon budgetary approval.

It is costly to develop medicines and get regulatory approval.

They may nod in approval or cross their arms with skeptical hostility in response to the users' actions.

Approval expected for genetically modified salmon.

He got a meeting with a deputy director, but not approval for a bureau badge.

TechCrunch got a seal of approval from one of the stalwarts of newspaper journalism today.

The merger would need approval by two-thirds of both chambers to proceed.

It requires expensive grid infrastructure, which in turn rests on a complex and time-consuming approval process.

Every time you discover an entire bone, you're rewarded with a dinosaur roar of approval.

Permitting outside income provided an incentive, and disclosure and approval rules seemed adequate to prevent abuse.

However, some apps pull such data without your approval.

LeBlanc, president of the university, decided that approval from the business-college.

It processes the loans extremely quickly and customers can even get immediate approval using an iPhone app.

External approval doesn't crank your noodle, because you don't really believe it.

There is likely to be room for these drugs in the lupus market, even in the wake of the belimumab approval.

The proposed settlement still requires final court approval.

Once the newspaper obtains proper approval for its printing costs, the paper can resume printed publication, he said.

One challenge facing the new devices is winning the approval of regulators.

But such objects are displayed only with the approval of the appropriate tribes.

Moreover, it makes one wonder about the testing and approval processes for other medications.

Confidentiality will be maintained and references will not be contacted without prior approval of the candidate.

Its approval gives the president political momentum as he seeks the energy reform that is next on his agenda.

These raids are sometimes conducted with the tacit approval of the police.

In my experience, an effective leader often does not require the approval of followers.

The point is, there are more important things in my life now than gaining the approval of anonymous referees.

If polls are right, their approval of these measures is all.

But some hope a military stamp of approval also will lead to commercial contracts.

His life is probably based on reward systems for attaining other people's approval.

The degree, a master's in management, still requires the approval of other university bodies.

Produce from cloned animals has won regulatory approval.

Execution of an order is subject to publisher's approval of copy, including display, text and illustration.

We will refer other third-party reprint requests to you for your approval.

But both transactions are subject to government approval.

Confidentiality will be maintained, and references will not be contacted without prior knowledge or approval of the candidate.

Now, their approval ratings have cratered, and they have turned to football for support.

Without approval by a federally recognized agency, a college's students cannot receive federal financial aid.

Yet a string of bribery scandals has undermined the prime minister's approval ratings.

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World English Dictionary

approval (əˈpruːv^əl)

—n
1.	the act of approving
2.	formal agreement; sanction
3.	a favourable opinion; commendation
4.	on approval (of articles for sale) for examination with an option to buy or return

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Word Origin & History

approval

1680s, from approve + -al (2). According to OED, "Rare bef. 1800; now generally used instead of" approvance (1650s, from Fr. aprovance).

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Idioms & Phrases

approval

see on approval; seal of approval.

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