英语词汇“approvals”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

approve¹ /ə-proovˈ/

transitive verb

To think well of, to be pleased with

To commend

To confirm, sanction or ratify

To show, demonstrate (esp reflexive; obsolete)

To test (Shakespeare)

To convict (Shakespeare)

intransitive verb

To judge favourably, to be pleased (with of)

ORIGIN: OFr aprover, from L approbāre, from ad to, and probāre to test or try, from probus good

approvˈable adjective

Deserving approval

approvˈal or (archaic) approvˈance noun

Favourable judgement
Commendation
An act of approving

approvˈer noun

A person who approves
An accomplice in crime admitted to give evidence against a prisoner, an informer (Eng law; historical)

approvˈing adjective

approvˈingly adverb

approved school noun

(between 1933 (Scotland 1937) and 1969) a state boarding school for young people who had broken the law or who were pronounced to be in need of care and protection

seal (or stamp) of approval

Formal commendation or ratification

on approval (or informal on appro /apˈrō/)

Subject to approval
Without obligation to buy

approve1 /ə-proovˈ/

approve¹ /ə-proovˈ/