Sanction - English meaning

verb

Consent to receive or undertake (something offered).

Usage examples:

He accepted a pen as a present

verb

To agree to take something

Usage examples:

Do you accept credit cards?, she was in mumbai to accept an award for her latest novel., i offered …

verb

To say yes to an offer or invitation

Usage examples:

We've offered her the job, but i don't know whether she'll accept it., i've just accepted an invita…

verb

Give credit to (someone) for something.

Usage examples:

He was accredited with being one of the world's fastest sprinters

verb

To officially recognize, accept, or approve of someone or something

Usage examples:

The agency was not accredited by the philippine consulate to offer contracts to filipinos abroad.

noun

The action or process of officially recognizing someone as having a particular status or being qualified to perform a particular activity.

Usage examples:

The accreditation of professionals

noun

Official approval, esp. in order to maintain satisfactory standards

Usage examples:

The hospital was threatened with the loss of accreditation if it did not improve the quality of its…

noun

If something has accreditation, it is officially accepted as being of a particular standard

Usage examples:

Gain/get/receive accreditation the law school hopes to gain full accreditation from the american ba…

noun

The reluctant acceptance of something without protest.

Usage examples:

In silent acquiescence, she rose to her feet

noun

The act of accepting or agreeing to something, often unwillingly

Usage examples:

I was surprised by her acquiescence to/in the plan., she nodded her acquiescence.

noun

Harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling.

Usage examples:

The two officers nodded in agreement

noun

The condition of having the same opinion, or a decision or arrangement between two or more people or groups to do something or to obey the same rules

Usage examples:

[ c ] a new trade agreement, [ u ] both sides were in agreement on the basic terms, but many detail…

noun

A decision or arrangement that has been made and accepted by two or more people, groups, organizations, etc.

Usage examples:

Agreement between sb and sb based on the rental agreement between the landlord and the tenant, eith…

verb

Let (someone) have or do something.

Usage examples:

The dissident was allowed to leave the country

verb

To let someone do something or let something happen; permit

Usage examples:

You’re not allowed to talk during the exam., are you allowed in the building on weekends?, video li…

verb

To make it possible for someone to do something, or to not prevent something from happening

Usage examples:

Allow sb/sth to do sth the website allows consumers to compare the prices of all energy and telepho…

noun

Approval or praise.

Usage examples:

A term of approbation

noun

Approval or agreement, often given by an official group; praise

Usage examples:

Kids need their fathers’ approbation.

noun

Approval or agreement, often given by an official group

Usage examples:

The council has finally indicated its approbation of the plans.

noun

The action of approving something.

Usage examples:

The road schemes have been given approval

noun

The feeling of having a positive opinion of someone or something

Usage examples:

He showed his approval by smiling broadly., alan is someone who always needs the approval of other …

noun

If you buy something on approval, you can return it without payment if it is not satisfactory

Usage examples:

The new manager introduced the practice of shipping items on approval.

verb

Officially agree to or accept as satisfactory.

Usage examples:

The budget was approved by parliament

verb

To have a good opinion of someone or something

Usage examples:

I wish my mother approved of my friends., finally the court approved the sale of the property.

verb

To accept, allow, or officially agree to something

Usage examples:

The measure was approved by the senate committee on local and municipal affairs., the aluminum prod…

noun

The expression of approval or agreement.

Usage examples:

A loud murmur of assent

verb

Express approval or agreement.

Usage examples:

The prime minister assented to the change

noun

Agreement to an idea, plan, or request, esp. after serious consideration

Usage examples:

He gave a nod of assent, and we knew we had a deal at last., at long last, the general assented to …

noun

The power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.

Usage examples:

He had absolute authority over his subordinates

noun

The power to control or demand obedience from others

Usage examples:

[ u ] the police have no legal authority in these disputes., [ u ] we have to find someone in autho…

noun

The official power to make decisions for other people or to tell them what they must do

Usage examples:

The executive committee can delegate authority to the chairperson., he did not have enough authorit…

noun

The action of authorizing.

Usage examples:

The raising of revenue and the authorization of spending

noun

Official permission for something to happen, or the action of giving someone official permission for something

Usage examples:

Get/acquire/obtain authorization human resources must obtain specific authorization from the execut…

noun

Official permission for something to happen, or the act of giving someone official permission to do something

Usage examples:

Medical records cannot be disclosed without authorization from the patient., [ + to infinitive ] th…

verb

Give official permission for or approval to (an undertaking or agent).

Usage examples:

The troops were authorized to use force

verb

To give official permission for something to happen, or to give someone official permission to do something

Usage examples:

Who authorized this expenditure?, [ + to infinitive ] i authorized my bank to pay her £3,000.

noun

The rear surface of the human body from the shoulders to the hips.

Usage examples:

He lay on his back

adverb

In the opposite direction from the one that one is facing or travelling towards.

Usage examples:

He moved back a pace

verb

Give financial, material, or moral support to.

Usage examples:

He had a newspaper empire backing him

verb

Officially or legally prohibit (something).

Usage examples:

Parking is banned around the harbour in summer

noun

An official or legal prohibition.

Usage examples:

A proposed ban on cigarette advertising

noun

A monetary unit of romania, equal to one hundredth of a leu.

Usage examples:

If you want milk you have to ask for it and it costs extra (often 50 bani or 5000 old lei) and is u…

noun

A fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access.

Usage examples:

The mountain barrier between norway and sweden

noun

Anything used or acting to block someone from going somewhere or from doing something, or to block something from happening

Usage examples:

The secret service erected concrete barriers around the white house., jackie robinson was the afric…

noun

Something that prevents something else from happening or makes it more difficult

Usage examples:

Barrier (to sth) in an ideal world, there would be no barriers to the free movement of people betwe…

verb

Withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

Usage examples:

We will boycott all banks which take part in the loans scheme

noun

A punitive ban on relations with other bodies, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods.

Usage examples:

A boycott of the negotiations

verb

To refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval

Usage examples:

The union called on its members to boycott the meeting., she organized an economic boycott of the c…

noun

Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.

Usage examples:

No change may be made without the consent of all the partners

verb

Give permission for something to happen.

Usage examples:

He consented to a search by a detective

noun

Permission or agreement obtained from someone or something having authority or power

Usage examples:

I asked to leave the room, and the teacher gave his consent., [ + to infinitive ] the director cons…

noun

The action or process of correcting something.

Usage examples:

I checked the typing for errors and sent it back for correction

noun

A change made to something in order to correct or improve it, or the action of making such a change

Usage examples:

She was disappointed to see her essay returned with a huge number of corrections in red ink.

noun

A change in prices in a financial market, especially when they go down after a period of being too high in relation to the real situation in a company, the economy, etc.

Usage examples:

It looks like last week's correction is over and prices are going to go higher.

noun

A thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something.

Usage examples:

Cameras are a major deterrent to crime

adjective

Able or intended to deter.

Usage examples:

The deterrent effect of heavy prison sentences

noun

Something that deters people from doing something

Usage examples:

A nuclear deterrent, tougher prison sentences may act/serve as a deterrent to other would-be offend…

noun

The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.

Usage examples:

A lack of proper parental and school discipline

verb

Train (someone) to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.

Usage examples:

Many parents have been afraid to discipline their children

noun

Training that produces obedience or self-control, often in the form of rules and punishments if these are broken, or the obedience or self-control produced by this training

Usage examples:

Military discipline, learning a foreign language requires discipline., an academic discipline, he w…

noun

Exemption from a rule or usual requirement.

Usage examples:

Although she was too young, she was given special dispensation to play before her birthday

noun

Special permission, especially from the church, to do something that is not usually allowed

Usage examples:

Special dispensation from the couple have requested (a) special dispensation from the church to all…

noun

A political or religious system controlling a country at a particular time

noun

An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.

Usage examples:

An embargo on grain sales

verb

Impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity).

Usage examples:

All of these countries have been embargoed by the us

noun

A government order to temporarily stop trading certain goods or with certain countries

Usage examples:

They put an embargo on imports of steel.

verb

Declare one's public approval or support of.

Usage examples:

The report was endorsed by the college

noun

Give support or one's approval to

verb

To make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone

Usage examples:

We’re not endorsing tax increases., my wife has publicly endorsed lunny for city council., he endor…

noun

The action of endorsing someone or something.

Usage examples:

The issue of full independence received overwhelming endorsement

noun

The act of making a public statement of your support for something or someone

Usage examples:

[ u ] both candidates have been seeking the union’s endorsement., [ c ] some athletes get contracts…

noun

A statement made by someone in an advertisement, especially a well-known person, saying that they use and like a particular product

Usage examples:

The company is considering other marketing tactics like celebrity endorsement and using cartoon cha…

verb

Go away from.

Usage examples:

She left london on june 6

noun

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

noun

Time when one has permission to be absent from work or from duty in the armed forces.

Usage examples:

Joe was home on leave

noun

A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (especially in alcoholic drink).

Usage examples:

A gun licence

verb

Grant a licence to.

Usage examples:

A pub has to be licensed by the local justices

noun

An official document that gives you permission to own, do, or use something, usually after you have paid money and/or taken a test

Usage examples:

A dog licence, a driving licence (us driver's license), a tv licence

verb

Grant a licence to.

Usage examples:

A pub has to be licensed by the local justices

noun

A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (especially in alcoholic drink).

Usage examples:

A gun licence

noun

An official document that gives you permission to own, do, or use something

Usage examples:

A fishing/export/driver’s license, poetic/artistic license, she’s licensed to teach elementary scho…

noun

A punishment imposed for breaking a law, rule, or contract.

Usage examples:

The charge carries a maximum penalty of ten years' imprisonment

noun

A punishment, esp. the usual one, for breaking a law

Usage examples:

Repeat offenders should face stiff/tough penalties., if you pay off the loan early, they’ll charge …

noun

An amount of money that someone is forced to pay for failing to obey a rule, law, etc.

Usage examples:

Taxpayers who do not send in their tax return by the deadline will pay a £100 penalty., exit/early-…

noun

The action of officially allowing someone to do a particular thing; consent or authorization.

Usage examples:

They had entered the country without permission

noun

The act of allowing someone to do something, or of allowing something to happen

Usage examples:

Parents have to give their permission for their children to go on school trips., [ + to infinitive …

noun

The act of allowing something to happen, or allowing someone to do something

Usage examples:

Permission for sth the eu has already granted its permission for the deal to go through., permissio…

verb

Officially allow (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

The law permits councils to monitor any factory emitting smoke

noun

An official document giving someone authorization to do something.

Usage examples:

He is only in britain on a work permit

noun

A deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western atlantic and caribbean and caught for food and sport.

Usage examples:

He told me that there were snook and tarpon (as i already knew) and there were large bonefish and p…

noun

The action of forbidding something, especially by law.

Usage examples:

They argue that prohibition of drugs will always fail

noun

In the us, prohibition was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was illegal.

noun

The period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was forbidden in the us

Usage examples:

There was a thriving black market during prohibition., the regulations spell out the prohibition of…

verb

Inflict a penalty or sanction on (someone) as retribution for an offence, especially a transgression of a legal or moral code.

Usage examples:

I have done wrong and i'm being punished for it

verb

To cause people who have done something wrong or committed a crime to suffer by making them do something they don’t want to do or sending them to prison

Usage examples:

She was punished for being late to school., swimming in the potomac is punishable by a fine., [ c ]…

noun

The infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offence.

Usage examples:

Crime demands just punishment

noun

Identification of someone or something or person from previous encounters or knowledge.

Usage examples:

She saw him pass by without a sign of recognition

noun

The fact of knowing who a person is or what a thing is because of having seen or experienced that person or thing before

Usage examples:

Dole obviously had the greatest name recognition of all the republican candidates., she gained reco…

noun

A situation in which people know what something is when they see or hear it

Usage examples:

After thirty years of trading, the company name enjoys global recognition., we have poor brand reco…

noun

A limiting condition or measure, especially a legal one.

Usage examples:

Planning restrictions on commercial development

noun

Something that limits someone's actions or movement, or limits the amount, size, etc., of something

Usage examples:

[ c ] you can get a discount fare, but some restrictions (= rules about limits) apply.

noun

An official limit or control on what people or companies are allowed to do, or on what can happen

Usage examples:

Impose/place/put restrictions on sth this practice imposes unneccessary restrictions on employment.…

noun

Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.

Usage examples:

Employees asked not to be named, saying they feared retribution

noun

Deserved punishment

Usage examples:

He was seeking retribution for the crime committed against him.

verb

Bear all or part of the weight of; hold up.

Usage examples:

The dome was supported by a hundred white columns

noun

A thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright.

Usage examples:

The best support for a camera is a tripod

verb

The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

noun

A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

Usage examples:

The reduction of trade barriers and import tariffs

verb

Fix the price of (something) according to a tariff.

Usage examples:

These services are tariffed by volume

noun

A government charge on goods entering or leaving a country

Usage examples:

Import tariffs

noun

A document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police or another body to make an arrest, search premises, or carry out some other action relating to the administration of justice.

Usage examples:

Magistrates issued a warrant for his arrest

verb

Justify or necessitate (a course of action).

Usage examples:

The employees feel that industrial action is warranted

verb

To make a particular action necessary or correct, or to be a reason to do something

Usage examples:

His injury was serious enough to warrant an operation., i can see circumstances in which these type…