RUBBER STAMP


Meaning of RUBBER STAMP in English

also rubber-stamp

( rubber stamps, rubber stamping, rubber stamped)

1.

A rubber stamp is a small device with a name, date, or symbol on it. You press it on to an ink pad and then on to a document in order to show that the document has been officially dealt with.

In Post Offices, virtually every document that’s passed across the counter is stamped with a rubber stamp.

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2.

When someone in authority rubber-stamps a decision, plan, or law, they agree to it without thinking about it much.

Parliament’s job is to rubber-stamp his decisions...

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