ratify
/ˈratɪfʌɪ
/verb (ratifies, ratifying, ratified) [with object]
Sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid: both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of the year...
- The Treaty was ratified by both countries in 1988.
- Parliament unanimously ratified an agreement on Wednesday allowing this.
- Seven countries have already ratified the constitution with two more countries well on track.
Derivatives
ratifiable
- If all wrongs were ratifiable, but with interested directors excluded from voting, then the basis for individual suit to enforce breaches of directors' duties would have to be re-considered.
ratifier
- Historians continue to deepen our understanding of how varied and occasionally contradictory were the intentions of various framers and ratifiers.
- The ratifier analyses the answers according to the parameters, removes redundancies and evaluates the psychological profile of the candidate.
- He felt that hypnotic physiological effects served as the most powerful ratifiers of trance experience.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French ratifier, from medieval Latin ratificare, from Latin ratus 'fixed' (see rate1).
Rhymes
- navel orange
- navel pipe
- navel-stone
- navel-string
- navel stud
- navel timbers
- navelwort
- nave plate
- naveta
- navette
- navew
- navicert
- navicular
- navicular bone
- navicular disease
- navicular fossa
- navicular syndrome
- naviculoid
- Navier–Stokes equation
- naviform
- navigability
- navigable
- navigably
- navigate
- navigating officer