
1) Abet 2) Agree to 3) Allow 4) Allowance 5) Approbation 6) Approval 7) Approve 8) Assent 9) Authorization 10) Authorize 11) Ban 12) Bless 13) Blessing 14) Condone 15) Confirm 16) Enact 17) Endorse 18) Endorsement 19) Fiat 20) Imprimatur 21) Indorse 22) Let 23) License 24) Okay 25) Okeh 26) Okey 27) Permission
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1) Approval 2) Approve 3) Approve or penalize 4) Commendation 5) Countenance 6) Endorsement 7) Final permission 8) Formal and explicit approval 9) Give sanction to 10) Holds inside 11) Imprimatur 12) Indorsement 13) Lend approval to 14) Permission or penalty 15) To countenance 16) To make valid 17) To penalize with sanctions
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- formal and explicit approval
- a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards
- official permission or approval
- the act of final authorization
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n. 1) a financial penalty imposed by a judge on a party or attorney for violation of a court rule, for receiving a special waiver of a rule, or as a fine for contempt of court. If a fine, the sanction may be paid to the court or to the opposing party to compensate the other side for inconvenience or added legal work due to the rule violation. Examp...
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• (n.) Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation. • (n.) Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal s...
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1. To approve or give permission for an action, as when an international organization sanctions the use of particular economic policies. 2. A coercive measure used by a nation or group of nations against another as a penalty for violating international law or international norms. Usually plural: sanctions.
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in the social sciences, a reaction (or the threat or promise of a reaction) by members of a social group indicating approval or disapproval of a ... [23 related articles]
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A mode of reward or punishment that reinforces socially expected forms of behaviour.
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Economic or military measure taken by a state or number of states to enforce international law. The first use of sanctions, as a trade
embargo, was the attempted economic boycott of Italy 1935-36...
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(n) Sanction is the fine or penalty imposed by a judge on a party or on his attorney for violating the orders issued by the court or for violating the rules prevalent there. For example a sanction can be imposed for frequent disturbance of courts functioning.
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Sanc'tion noun [ Latin
sanctio , from
sancire ,
sanctum to render sacred or inviolable, to fix unalterably: confer French
sanction . See
Saint .]
1. Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to t...
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Sanc'tion transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Sanctioned ;
present participle & verbal noun Sanctioning .] To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve. « Would have counseled, or even
sanctioned , such pe...
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approval (by authority) penaltyÂ
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1) A financial penalty imposed by a judge on a party or attorney -- or the act of imposing such a penalty. 2) In international law, to impose economic constraints on trade against a country that violates international law or commits human rights violations. 3) To allow or approve.
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A penalty imposed on a person involved in a case if he or she, for example, fails to comply with directions or refuses to consider an alternative to court. Even though a person wins a case, the judge may order them to pay the other party`s costs
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noun official permission or approval; `authority for the program was renewed several times`
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countenance noun formal and explicit approval; `a Democrat usually gets the union`s endorsement`
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A sanction is anything which serves to move (and, in this sense, to oblige) a man to observe or to refrain from a given mode of conduct, any source of motivation, and hence, on a hedonistic theory, any source of pleasure or pain. Gay and Bentham distinguished four such sanctions: the natural or physical sanction, i.e., the ordinary course of natu.....
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Economic or military measure taken by a state or number of states to enforce international law. The first use of sanctions, as a trade embargo, was the attempted economic boycott of Italy 1935–36 during the Abyssinian War by the League of Nations. Other examples of sanctions are the economic boycott of Rhodesia, after its unilateral declaratio......
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a penalty or punishment provided as a means of enforcing obedience to a law, rule or code; also, an authorization
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A socially constructed expression of approval or disapproval.
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give authority or permission to
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give authority or permission to
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official permission or approval
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[Intelligent words] give authority or permission to
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