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rub⋅ber-stamp

[ruhb-er-stamp]
–verb (used with object)
1. to imprint with a rubber stamp.
2. to give approval automatically or without consideration: to rubber-stamp the president's proposals.
–adjective
3. tending to give approval automatically or without due consideration: a rubber-stamp Congress that passed all the president's bills.

Origin:
1915–20; v. use of rubber stamp
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rubber stamp  
n.  
  1. A piece of rubber affixed to a handle and bearing raised characters used to make ink impressions, as of names or dates.

  2. also rub·ber·stamp (rŭb'ər-stāmp')

    1. A person or body that gives perfunctory approval or endorsement of a policy without assessing its merit.

    2. A perfunctory approval or endorsement.

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