approval
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- noun
- /əˈpruːvəl/
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aprobación
- Her parents expressed their approval of her decision to study abroad.
- gain approval
- win approval
- seal of approval
But a good guy, instead of seeking approval constantly, right?
- But a good guy, instead of seeking approval constantly, right?
- Yeah, Tabitha, the only approval you need is your own.
- And my young self is still waiting for that approval still.
- Hawk had won their approval with one jab of a pitchfork.
- She needs to hear your approval as well.
- My big problem is I have to fit your approval into my mindset.
- Let's, let's start winning, winning approval, support and influence with our NATO allies.
- Everything is for work, for approval, relevance.
- I most of my life confused or conflated approval from people with love of them.
- And once we dropped it, we got the approval from DJ pool.
- We talk about peer group, you know, approval needs and so on.
- It garners the approval of people around them.
- Winning is winning approval and admiration of others.
- I have a lot of trouble feeling good about the approval you just gave me.
- So my wife, for instance, has shaped me and both through approval and disapproval.
- And she found that she spent her adult life trying to seek out approval, not admiration.
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My big problem is I have to fit your approval into my mindset.
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The Red Hook center has received a 94 percent approval rating in resident surveys.
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And you are so important to her and your approval is so important to her.
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Because his approval was so important to me.
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Most of us need approval.
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We talk about peer group, you know, approval needs and so on.
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Yeah, I was doing that for approval and validation.
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Humor can be viewed as a way to gain approval, attention, and recognition.
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Truman, Johnson, and Nixon had less than a 30 percent approval rate at the end of their terms.
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Meanwhile, recent public opinion polls have shown widespread approval for some U.S. presence on the isthmus.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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1.8
A feeling of respect and approval for someone or something
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2.7
Being approved or welcomed by other people
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2.5
Formal approval from a person in charge to allow something
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An official award or letter praising someone for good work
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4.2
Praise given to someone in public for an achievement
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3.9
An official stamp shows a person in charge thinks something is good
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3.4
An official sign that shows someone agrees with something
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8.5
Official approval or praise from a person in charge
An act of receiving something with approval
Praise people give someone in public for something good they did
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- Literature
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The share of people in polls who say they support a person, group, or idea
How Approving
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Etymology
Approval comes from the old Latin verb probare, meaning 'to test' or 'to prove', with the part ad- meaning 'to'. It is the same root as the common English word prove. So, approval in this sense is a sign that someone thinks something is good or has been proved acceptable.