approval

[uh-proo-vuh l] /əˈpru vəl/
noun
1.
the act of approving; approbation.
2.
formal permission or sanction.
3.
Philately. one of a group of selected stamps sent by a dealer to a prospective customer for examination and either purchase or return.
Idioms
4.
on approval, without obligation to buy unless satisfactory to the customer upon trial or examination and, otherwise, returnable:
We ship merchandise on approval.
Origin
1680-90; approve + -al2
Related forms
nonapproval, noun
preapproval, noun
proapproval, adjective
reapproval, noun
self-approval, noun
Examples from the web for approval
  • 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.
  • The company combed its email logs to make sure no approval notice had been received.
  • Position and renewal are contingent upon budgetary approval.
  • It is costly to develop medicines and get regulatory approval.
  • approval expected for genetically modified salmon.
  • He got a meeting with a deputy director, but not approval for a bureau badge.
  • 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.
  • However, some apps pull such data without your approval.
British Dictionary definitions for approval

approval

/əˈpruːvəl/
noun
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
Word Origin and History for approval
n.

1680s, from approve + -al (2). According to OED, "Rare bef. 1800; now generally used instead of" approvance (1590s, from French aprovance).

Idioms and Phrases with approval

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