Usually means: Officially approve or sanction something.
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  1. approbate: Merriam-Webster
  2. approbate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. approbate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. approbate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. approbate: Vocabulary.com
  6. approbate: Wordnik
  7. approbate: Wiktionary
  8. approbate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. approbate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Approbate, approbate: Dictionary.com
  11. Approbate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. approbate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. approbate: Rhymezone
  14. Approbate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. approbate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. approbate: FreeDictionary.org
  17. approbate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. approbate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. approbate: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. approbate: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (approbate)

▸ adjective:  Approved.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To give official sanction, consent or authorization to.

Similar:
approbative, approved, approvable, accepted, official, probal, allowed, permitted, disapprovable, vetted, more...

Opposite:
reprobate, reprobation, reprobative, reprobatory

Phrases:
approbate and reprobate, more...

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Similar:
approbative, approved, approvable, accepted, official, probal, allowed, permitted, disapprovable, vetted, more...

Opposite:
reprobate, reprobation, reprobative, reprobatory

Phrases:
approbate and reprobate, more...



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