APPROVE


Meaning of APPROVE in English

(~s, approving, ~d)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

If you ~ of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.

Not everyone ~s of the festival...

VERB: oft with brd-neg, V of n

2.

If you ~ of someone or something, you like and admire them.

You’ve never ~d of Henry, have you?...

VERB: oft with brd-neg, V of n

3.

If someone in a position of authority ~s a plan or idea, they formally agree to it and say that it can happen.

The Russian Parliament has ~d a program of radical economic reforms...

= sanction

VERB: V n

4.

see also ~d , approving

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